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| A Panoramic Landscape with a Country Estate |
Artist:Philips Koninck (Dutch, Amsterdam 1619–1688 Amsterdam)
Date:ca. 1649
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:56 3/8 x 68 1/4 in. (143.2 x 173.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911
Accession Number:11.144
This ambitious work is one of the artist’s first compositions on a large scale. The foreground is somewhat awkwardly arranged, but the sunlit plain in the distance seems to announce Koninck’s mature style of panoramic landscape painting. Earlier Dutch landscape and marine painters had surveyed sweeping views of earth and sky, but Koninck (who knew Rembrandt well) introduces dramatic contrasts of light and shadow and a sense of nature as a constantly changing force.
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