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Find the horseman and his dog on the sunny road, then look up through the dark branches of the big tree to the clouds lit pink and white.
Hobbema signed and dated this large canvas in 1663, when he was about 25. A rider in a red coat passes a brick cottage under a towering tree, one of the small figures the National Gallery says he used to enliven his big woodland views. It came to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922 as a bequest from Mrs. W. W. Kimball.
Oil on canvas · 101.9 × 131.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- Wooded Landscape with Cottage and Horseman
- Artist
- Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)
- Date
- 1663
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 101.9 × 131.4 cm (40 1/8 × 51 3/4 in.); Framed: 135.5 × 165.5 × 5.1 cm (53 3/8 × 65 1/8 × 2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.