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A rutted cart track leads straight into the middle of the picture. A group of figures are caught in a patch of sunlight while a cottage merges into the shadows. A frieze of trees stands out against a sunny glade and a cloudy sky beyond. Many of Hobbema’s landscapes were composed around these specific elements. The vast majority were almost certainly not real views, but studio paintings designed to evoke the woodlands around Haarlem near his home town of Amsterdam.This painting is an archetypal example of Hobbema’s picturesque, positive evocation of country life, with his harmonious view of the world subtly underlined in the composition itself. The painting is full of curves and meanders; even the strong diagonals of the cottage roofline are softened by the surrounding foliage.
Title
A Woody Landscape with a Cottage
Date
about 1665
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 99.5 x W 130.5 cm
Accession number
NG995
Acquisition method
Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876
Work type
Painting
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