Bomen naast een weiland

About this artwork

height 480 mm x width 350 mm

Art Historical Context

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek’s *Bomen naast een weiland* captures the quiet beauty of the Dutch countryside through a delicate lithograph created between 1844 and 1845. Koekkoek, one of the leading Romantic landscape painters of the nineteenth century, was celebrated for his meticulous depictions of nature that blended precise observation with a sense of poetic atmosphere. His works often evoked the timeless harmony between land and sky, drawing inspiration from the great seventeenth-century Dutch masters while appealing to the Romantic era’s fascination with the natural world. This print, measur...

About the Artist

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek · 1803–1862

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, born on October 11, 1803, in Middelburg, Netherlands, emerged from a prolific family of artists as the son of marine painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek and Anna van Koolwijk. His brothers—Hermanus, Johannes, and Marinus Adrianus—also pursued painting, specializing in marine and river scenes or decorative works. Koekkoek received his earliest training from his father befor...