Polder Landscape

Polder Landscape

SK-A-3249

signature and date, lower right: ‘VG 1644’

The Dutch landscape is defined by its extensive lowlands, as Jan van Goyen painted here. Much of the countryside consists of polders. The water level inside these areas surrounded by dikes is regulated with the help of mills. Schiphol Airport, too, is located in such a polder, approximately four metres below sea level. Before it was empoldered in the 19th century there was a large body of water here called the Haarlemmermeer.

painter: Jan van Goyen (signed by artist)

1644

olieverf op paneel

• height 22 cm x width 33.2 cm
• depth 5.5 cm

Gift of H.W.A. Deterding, London

gift 1936-06

Public domain

...; sale, F.C. Pawle, Esq. (†) (Northcote, Reigate, Surrey), C.N. Curtis, W.C. Waldron, W. Lawson Peacock [anonymous section], London (Christie et al.), 20 March 1925, no. 131, £ 241.10, to Clark;{Copy RKD1.}...; donated to the museum by Sir Henri W.A. Deterding (1866-1939), London, 1936

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