Rijksmuseum

Berglandschap bij Düsseldorf

Date

1790

Medium

panel, oil paint (paint)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

This untamed view of nature anticipates picturesque features of Romanticism. Van Nijmegen, though, was also inspired by 17th-century Dutch painters, such as Jacob van Ruisdael. He had seen the subject of this painting – a landscape with ruins and drovers driving an ox-wagon over a wooden bridge – while travelling along the Rhine in 1788. He described it in his journal.

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