Artwork
View of the City of Raiebaagh in Visiapoer, India
View of the City of Raiebaagh in Visiapoer, India is an oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vingboons. It dates from 1662 and is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
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Subject & Meaning
View of the City of Raiebaagh in Visiapoer, India is a landscape painting by Johannes Vingboons that depicts the city of Raiebaagh in the Visiapoer region of India. According to the Wikidata record, the painting portrays natural and inhabited features including trees, mountains, and boats, situating the Indian city within a broader topographic landscape rather than focusing on architectural detail alone. The inclusion of boats suggests a riverine or coastal setting, while the mountains and trees frame the city within its surrounding terrain, a convention typical of European topographical views of distant locales.
As a Dutch-produced view of an Indian city, the work reflects the seventeenth-century Northern European interest in documenting and cataloguing foreign places, presenting Raiebaagh as a recognizable site for viewers unfamiliar with the Indian subcontinent.
Technique & Style
Its dimensions are 97 cm in height by 140 cm in width, giving it a horizontal orientation suited to panoramic vistas.
The work is executed in oil paint on canvas, a standard support for seventeenth-century Dutch landscape production. Its dimensions are 97 cm in height by 140 cm in width, giving it a horizontal orientation suited to panoramic vistas. The painting is classified as a landscape and depicts trees, mountains, and boats, consistent with a topographical view of an Indian city rendered in the panoramic mode associated with Dutch colonial-era imagery.
History & Provenance
This landscape painting was commissioned by an unknown patron in the Dutch Republic and executed in 1662 by Johannes Vingboons in the Northern Low Countries. It depicts the city of Raiebaagh in Visiapoer, India, and was created using oil paint on canvas. The work entered the collection of the Rijksmuseum, where it remains on public display.
The painting is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, as recorded in the Wikidata entry for the work.
No specific inventory or accession number is provided in the available sources, and no exhibition history is documented.
Overview
Created in 1662, this oil painting by Dutch cartographer and artist Johannes Vingboons portrays a tranquil riverside settlement in the Indian region of Raiebaagh, Visiapoer. The composition centers on a gently curving waterway flanked by modest dwellings with red tiled roofs, a solitary vessel, and a distant horizon where low hills dissolve into a pale sky. The work is part of the Rijksmuseum’s collection.
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Artist
Johannes Vingboons was a Dutch draughtsman, watercolourist, and cartographer active in Amsterdam during the seventeenth century, in the period of the Dutch Golden Age.
