Landscape

About this artwork

drager: hoogte 22,4 cm x breedte 39,9 cm x dikte 1 cm

Art Historical Context

Frans Helfferich'sLandscape*, created between 1890 and1920, captures the Dutch fascination with nature during a transformative era. As a modest oil on panel measuring just 22.4 cm high by 39.9 cm wide, this intimate work reflects the portability and detail-oriented tradition of panel painting, popular among Dutch artists for sketches and studies. Helfferich, a lesser-known but skilled practitioner of landscape art, contributed to the late 19th- and early 20th-century continuum of the Hague School's luminist style, emphasizing atmospheric light and expansive vistas. The choice of oil on a thin...