# A Wooded Landscape, in Meindert Hobbema

Meindert Hobbema painted this in 1663, aged 25. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A rutted road curves past a grove of tall trees, whose broad canopies throw deep shade over a stream, while small figures stroll, talk and fish across a sunlit landscape of fields and hedgerows.

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## The work

- Date: 1663
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 94.7 x 130.5 cm (37 5/16 x 51 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1937.1.61
- 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

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