Artwork
The riding school
The riding school 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.
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Technique & Style
No losses or major damages are recorded in the source; the painting’s condition is treated as stable within the holding institution.
The work is painted in oil on canvas, a standard support for Dutch landscape painting of the mid-seventeenth century. Handling is consistent with Lingelbach’s practice: fluid brushwork defines distant architectural and equestrian elements, while the sky is rendered with broader, blended scumbles to modulate light and depth. The palette relies on earthy ochres and umbers for foreground figures and architecture, contrasted with cooler blues and whites in the sky and distant landscape.
No losses or major damages are recorded in the source; the painting’s condition is treated as stable within the holding institution.
History & Provenance
The riding school was painted by Johannes Lingelbach in 1650 and is classified as an oil painting landscape. It was created on canvas using oil paint and measures 68 cm in height by 82 cm in width. The work entered the collection of the Rijksmuseum and the National Art Gallery of the Netherlands, where it remains on display.
The riding school is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, the National Art Gallery of the Netherlands. It is catalogued as a painting on canvas executed in oil paint, with recorded dimensions of 68 cm in height and 82 cm in width.
No further provenance details, accession number, or prior exhibition history are documented in the available sources.
Overview
The Riding School is a 17th-century oil painting by Johannes Lingelbach, a Dutch artist active in Rome.
Subject & Meaning
The scene depicts a lively outdoor riding school with numerous figures on horseback, on foot, or leading horses, set against a backdrop of trees, a classical building, and a distant windmill under a partly cloudy sky.
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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.
