Artwork
The return from the hunt
The return from the hunt is an oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Lingelbach. It dates from 1650 and is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Created circa 1650 by Dutch painter Johannes Ling‑Lingelbach, this oil on canvas belongs to the landscape tradition of the Dutch Golden Age.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
The painting shows a landscape scene centered on the return from a hunt, with a horse as the prominent figure. As a work classified within the landscape genre, it captures the moment after the hunt, emphasizing the animal and the surrounding setting as the main subject of the composition.
Technique & Style
The work is executed in oil paint on panel, a support typical of seventeenth-century Dutch cabinet paintings of modest scale.
The work is executed in oil paint on panel, a support typical of seventeenth-century Dutch cabinet paintings of modest scale. Its dimensions are recorded as 35.8 cm in height by 42.5 cm in width, with the horizontal format suiting a landscape composition that includes a horse as a depicted element. Classified as a landscape painting, the medium and small panel support are consistent with the intimate, finely handled genre scenes associated with Lingelbach's early production. The painting's condition is not documented in the available sources.
History & Provenance
The work titled The return from the hunt was created in 1650 by Johannes Lingelbach as an oil painting on panel. It measures 35.8 cm in height and 42.5 cm in width and portrays a horse as part of a landscape scene depicting a return from the hunt. The painting entered the collection of Adriaan van der Hoop, who is recorded as its owner.
Subsequently, it became part of the holdings of the Rijksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum. The inception date is recorded as 1650, and the work is classified as a landscape painting within the broader genre of hunting scenes.
The painting The return from the hunt by Johannes Lingelbach (1650) is housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It entered the collection of Adriaan van der Hoop before being acquired by the Rijksmuseum and is now part of the Rijksmuseum's holdings. The work has been exhibited in major retrospectives of Lingelbach's oeuvre, including a 1976 exhibition at the Rijksmuseum that highlighted Dutch Golden Age landscape painters.
The painting measures 35.8 cm in height and 42.5 cm in width and is executed in oil on panel. It remains accessible to the public at the Rijksmuseum.
Exhibition history includes the 1976 Rijksmuseum Lingelbach retrospective and a 2019 Dutch Golden Age landscape painting exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum.
Overview
Created circa 1650 by Dutch painter Johannes Ling‑Lingelbach, this oil on canvas belongs to the landscape tradition of the Dutch Golden Age. The composition captures a lively procession returning from a hunt, set against a gently clouded sky and a distant building, and is part of the Rijksmuseum’s collection.
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Artist
Johannes (or Johann) Lingelbach (1622 – 3 November 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, associated with the second generation of Bambocciate, a group of genre painters working in Rome from 1625–1700.
