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An Extensive Landscape with Houses in a Wood and a Distant Town

Philips de Koninck (1619–1688)

The National Gallery, London

An Extensive Landscape with Houses in a Wood and a Distant Town

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There’s a delight in letting your eye wander across the vast landscapes of Koninck’s paintings and suddenly coming upon one of the tiny details within. In the foreground here, but still far away, are assorted animals and assorted people, some working, some chatting, some idling away the remaining sunny hours. Away among the trees are churches, pavilions, towers and humbler dwellings. In the shadows there’s a bridge crossing a river to a windmill. Further off, the sun catches a lake with a town on its banks.

Koninck was a specialist in these expansive, usually imaginary, landscapes, to which he brought an unprecedented grandeur and tranquillity. The animals and figures here were probably done by Adriaen van der Velde. Artists collaborating like this – one painting the landscape and another the figures – was a normal practice at the time.

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Title

An Extensive Landscape with Houses in a Wood and a Distant Town

Date

about 1670

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 101.5 x W 146.5 cm

Accession number

NG4251

Acquisition method

Bought with contributions from the Benson family and The Art Fund, 1927

Work type

Painting

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Philips de Koninck

1619–1688

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