770 - Landscape with farmstead, half-timbered house with thatched roof by a pond, ornate frame, 19th c.

Landscape with farmstead, half-timbered house with thatched roof by a pond, ornate frame, 19th c. Oil/wood panel, illegibly signed lower right, 19th century, landscape with farmstead, on the left a pond with grassy bank, behind it a tall deciduous tree before a group of trees, in the centre a farmstead with thatched roofs, half-timbered gable and round-arched door in the wall, in front a sandy path, on the right a hill behind a fence and in the distance a house with grey roof among trees, light sky with clouds, condition commensurate with age, retouching, image 26x35 cm (HxW), framed, gold-coloured ornate frame with rocailles, frame chipped, frame width 6 cm Landscapes with farmstead, pond and group of trees stand in the tradition of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, which founded the genre with simple motifs, unified composition and particular interest in sky and light effects; Meindert Hobbema specialised in woodland landscapes and watermills. The 19th century took up these fine effects of light and atmosphere, first in Romanticism, from the 1830s in Realism and plein-air painting.