Ruiters voor een herberg
Arie Ketting de Koningh
in or before 1835 - 1848
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
430; 295
About this artwork
lithografie
Art Historical Context
Arie Ketting de Koningh’s *Ruiters voor een herberg* captures a lively roadside scene in which mounted travelers pause before a rustic inn. Created as a lithograph between1835 and 1848, the work measures roughly 295 × 430 mm and reflects the nineteenth-century taste for genre subjects drawn from everyday Dutch life. Though little is known of the artist’s personal biography, the print belongs to a period when lithography had become a favored medium for circulating affordable images of local customs and landscapes. Lithography, a planographic process invented in the late eighteenth century, all...