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Landscape with Dunes

Landscape with Dunes

Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1596–1656)
Date1647
MediumOil on oak panel
DimensionsOverall: 18 1/2 × 28 in. (47 × 71.1 cm)
Frame: 25 1/8 × 34 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (63.8 × 87.6 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1941.76
Status
On view
More Information
Van Goyen was the master of the tonalist landscape, using a limited palette of muted colors to describe the subtle, atmospheric beauty of the Dutch countryside. Here a farmer plows a field as cattle graze, two men and a dog walk across the fields, while other figures are seen to converse by farm buildings. The windmill, spire, and house alleviate the horizontality of the land.
Exhibition History
Gemalde aus bremischem Privatbesitz
  • Breman ( 1904 - 1904 )
Dutch and Flemish Pictures of the Seventeenth Century
  • E. J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam ( 1932 - 1932 )
Old Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries
  • Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY ( 1938 - 1938 )
European Masters Lent by Knoedler Galleries
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (February 24, 1940 - March 17, 1940 )
Masterworks from University and College Art Collections
  • Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (February 22, 1958 - March 30, 1958 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
From Baroque to Neoclassicism: European Paintings, 1625-1825
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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