The Cattle Ferry

• The Cattle Ferry
• The Ferry

SK-A-1293

signature and date, lower right: ‘E. V. VELDE 1622’

This painting is a milestone, for never before had a Dutch painter depicted his native flat, watery landscape in such a monumental format. Dusk is falling, and the light is beginning to fade. The glistening river winds its way into the distance, drawing the viewer along, too, past countless little figures.

painter: Esaias van de Velde

1622

olieverf op paneel

height 75.5 cm x width 113 cm

purchase 1885-10-30

Public domain

...; collection Mr P. VerLoren van Themaat, Utrecht;{Keyes 1984, p. 148.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller _et al_.), 30 October 1885, no. 100, fl. 755, to C.F. Roos for the museum{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 165, no. 465 (13 November 1885); RANH, ARS, Kop, inv. 289, p. 76, no. 171 (2 January 1886).}

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108352