# A Cottage in the Woods, in The Dutch Golden Age

Meindert Hobbema painted this in about 1662, aged about 19. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Inspired by the native Dutch landscape, Meindert Hobbema specialized in scenes of dense forest growth punctured by winding paths and views toward sunlit clearings that beckon with fertile fields and rustic cottages.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- 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.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.641
- 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

- [More by Meindert Hobbema](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/meindert-hobbema?hang=749) (4 works)
- [More paintings of the 17th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-17?hang=749) (168 works)
- [17th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-netherlands?hang=749) (91 works)

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