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Follow the wheel ruts of the road into the wood toward the cottage, then look far to the left for the small windmill on the horizon.
A sandy road leads between tall trees to a cottage in a clearing, the kind of scene Meindert Hobbema made his specialty. The Cleveland Museum of Art explains that such views of home ground appealed to Dutch buyers, proud of their recent independence from Spain and aware of how much effort it took to protect their low-lying land from floods.
oil on canvas · Framed: 122.5 x 149 x 12 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- A Cottage in the Woods
- Artist
- Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)
- Date
- c. 1662
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 122.5 x 149 x 12 cm (48 1/4 x 58 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 84 x 111.4 cm (33 1/16 x 43 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of John L. Severance
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1638–1709
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.