Meadow Landscape with Cattle

Meadow Landscape with Cattle

SK-A-4114

signature: ‘W. Roelofs’

Unlike Romantic painters, Hague School artists had an eye for the beauty of the polder landscape. Instead of the dramatic and varied landscapes of the Romantic tradition, they painted cows ruminating tranquilly in verdant meadows with a panoramic horizon. These works were greatly appreciated and gave rise to the image of the Netherlands as a green, flat polder landscape under a greyish blue sky.

painter: Willem Roelofs (I)

c. 1880

olieverf op paneel

• height 83 cm x width 113 cm x depth 13 cm
• height 49.2 cm x width 77.3 cm

Gift of T.L. Laue-Drucker, The Hague

gift 1965

Public domain

Inv.; collection Mr Tiete van Hettinga Tromp (?- 1906), Leeuwarden;{Note RMA.} sale, Jacques Goudstikker [section 'Various Properties'], Amsterdam (F. Muller), 8 October 1940, no. 174, fl. 1,400, to the dealer B. Houthakker;{Copy RMA.}…; collection Palthe;{Note RMA.}…; from the dealer P.A. Scheen, The Hague, fl. 27,000, to Theresia Louise Laue, née Drucker (1882-?), The Hague;{Note RMA.} by whom donated to the museum, 1965

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