De ingang van het bos
Philips Koninck
1650 - 1688
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
164.5; 138; 9
About this artwork
olieverf op doek
Art Historical Context
Philips Koninck’s *De ingang van het bos* (*The Entrance to the Forest*) is a large oil-on-canvas painting measuring over a metre and a half in height and width. Created sometime between 1650 and 1688, the work’s imposing scale suggests it was intended to immerse viewers in a sweeping natural scene, a format popular in Dutch collections of the period. Its presence in the Rijksmuseum underscores its enduring value as an example of seventeenth-century landscape painting. Oil on canvas allowed Koninck to achieve rich tonal depth and subtle atmospheric effects, qualities well suited to rendering ...