Landschap studiën eerste levering

About this artwork

verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228

Art Historical Context

**Landschap studiën levering (Landscape Studies, First Delivery)** by Barend Cornelis Kokoek invites visitors into the lush world of 19th-century Dutchism. Created between 1829 and 1844, this lithograph—measuring 462 × 312 mm—represents the "first delivery" of a series of landscape studies by Koekkoek, often called the "painter the woods" for his meticulous depictions of nature's grandeur. As a leading figure in the Dutch landscape tradition, Koekkoek the sublime beauty of forests, skies, and waterways with a poetic realism that blended observation and imagination. Lithography, the medium her...

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...