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Find the row of thin young trees near the middle, then compare their straight dark trunks with the curve of the path that sweeps away beside them.
Mondrian signed this sheet, dated it '05 and wrote the place, Loosduinen, under his name. At the time he was a landscape painter, making about fifty landscapes a year between 1897 and 1907. In 1905 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam held a large Van Gogh show, and the Cleveland Museum of Art sees that painter in the thin bare trees, the low horizon and the lone peasant.
black chalk (extended with water in places), watercolor, and gouache; framing line in graphite (bottom edge) · Sheet: 25.8 x 35.9 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · De Stijl
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- Museum title
- Landscape at Loosduinen
- Artist
- Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944)
- Date
- 1905
- Medium
- black chalk (extended with water in places), watercolor, and gouache; framing line in graphite (bottom edge)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.8 x 35.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.