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Dune Landscape with a Signal Post

Creator Name

Philips Wouwerman;
Philips Wouwerman

Cultural Context

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Date

c. 1651 - c. 1653, ca. 1651 - ca. 1653

About the Work

Rijksmuseum Object Description
Landschap met een seinpaal bij een boerenhuis op de oever van een rivier. Op de voorgrond en links gaan enkele figuren over een landweg.

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Title

Dune Landscape with a Signal Post

Creator

Philips Wouwerman, draftsman (artist), tekenaar, schilder, painter;
Philips Wouwerman, draftsman (artist), tekenaar, schilder, painter

Worktype

painting; schilderij

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Material

paneel; panel; oil paint (paint); olieverf

Dimensions

support: height 24.4 cm x width 30.2 cm;
drager: hoogte 24,4 cm x breedte 30,2 cm

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Language

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Date

c. 1651 - c. 1653, ca. 1651 - ca. 1653

Provenance

…; collection Adriaan Leonard van Heteren (1724-1800), The Hague; his third cousin and godson, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers (1794-1866), Rotterdam (‘Paysage charmant, très délicatement peint, l’un des plus jolis connus de ce maitre, avec plusieurs figures (bois, h. 8¾ l. 11 [22.8 x 28.7 cm])’);{_Catalogue raisonné d’une collection de tableaux appartenant à Monsieur A.L. Gevers, Page de Leurs Majestés le Roi et la Reine de Hollande_ 1808; transcr. in E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, pp. 145-51, esp. p. 151, no. 135.} from whom, with 136 other paintings (known as ‘Kabinet van Heteren Gevers’), fl. 100,000, to the museum, by decree of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, and through the mediation of his father, Dirk Cornelis Gevers (1763-1839), 8 June 1809;{T.L.J. Verroen, ‘“Een verstandig ryk man”: De achttiende-eeuwse verzamelaar Adriaan Leonard van Heteren’, _Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_ 4 (1985), pp. 17-61, esp. p. 17, notes 2, 3.} on loan to the Fondation Custodia, Paris, since 1954

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Rights

Public domain

Inscription

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Location

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Subjects

dune coast; visual signalling

Topic

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Philips Wouwerman, Dune Landscape with a Signal Post, c. 1651 - c. 1653, ca. 1651 - ca. 1653, Rijksmuseum. Public domain.

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