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Meindert Hobbema liked nothing better than to take you for a walk. He leads us onward – patches of sun that follow one another up the canvas, but into the picture, make the image appear three-dimensional – and leaves us feeling fresh and windblown. In this painting, his trees are stunted and bent as if blown by a sea wind. Birds wheel overhead in a restless sky, the clouds scudding high and fast.
Outside many major towns in the Dutch Republic large parklands could often be found, open to the public, where urban people went in their leisure time. A picture of such a place would be a treasured reminder of those times.
Title
A Road winding past Cottages
Date
about 1667-8
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 61.3 x W 84.5 cm
Accession number
NG2571
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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