Waterfall with Log Cabins
Allart van Everdingen
c. 1665/1670
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 96.5 × 118.5 cm (38 × 46 5/8 in.) framed: 113.03 × 136.37 × 6.35 cm (44 1/2 × 53 11/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde
Accession Number
2018.210.1
About the Artist
Allart van Everdingen · 1621–1675
Allaert van Everdingen (1621-1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker who introduced Scandinavian landscape painting to the Netherlands. Born in Alkmaar and baptized on June 18, 1621, he pioneered a distinctive genre of Nordic mountain scenery that profoundly influenced Dutch landscape painting and later inspired the Romantic movement. Van Everdingen holds a unique place in art history...