# A View on a High Road, in Meindert Hobbema

Meindert Hobbema painted this in 1665, aged 27. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A sandy road winds past cottages and gnarled trees under a vivid, cloud-studded sky, alive with everyday incident: a traveller resting on a log with a bundle on his back, a well-dressed couple strolling towards us, children launching a toy sailboat on a pond while a dog sniffs nearby, and a rider further on.

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## The work

- Date: 1665
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 93.1 x 127.8 cm (36 5/8 x 50 5/16 in.) framed: 122.6 x 158.4 cm (48 1/4 x 62 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1937.1.62
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Meindert Hobbema](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/meindert-hobbema), Dutch, 1638–1709

Hobbema studied with Jacob van Ruisdael in Amsterdam in the late 1650s and became the most accomplished of his followers, painting sunlit woodland, watermills, cottages and country roads.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Meindert Hobbema's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-meindert-hobbema?hang=748) (8 works)
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