Artwork
Landscape at Kortenhoef
Landscape at Kortenhoef is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël. It dates from 1889 and is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
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Subject & Meaning
Its composition reflects the characteristic attention to natural detail and domestic architecture typical of 19th-century Dutch landscape painting.
Landscape at Kortenhoef shows a rural Dutch scene that includes a tree, a road, a stone bridge, a river, a modest house and a duck. These elements together form the visual narrative of everyday countryside life. The work, executed in oil on panel in 1889, belongs to the landscape genre and is part of the Rijksmuseum’s collection, having been owned by Joannes Barnardus Antonius Maria Westerwoudt.
Its composition reflects the characteristic attention to natural detail and domestic architecture typical of 19th-century Dutch landscape painting.
Technique & Style
Landscape at Kortenhoef is executed in oil paint on panel, a relatively modest support measuring 37 by 57.5 centimeters in a horizontal landscape orientation. The medium and support are consistent with Gabriël’s practice of producing modestly scaled, directly handled oil sketches of the Dutch countryside. The composition incorporates multiple landscape elements, trees, a road, a bridge, a river, a house, and ducks, arranged across the panel in a manner typical of the Hague School tradition to which Gabriël belonged, with a low horizon and an emphasis on atmospheric outdoor light. The work is held by the Rijksmuseum.
History & Provenance
Landscape at Kortenhoef was painted by Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël in 1889 in oil on panel, and measures 37 × 57.5 cm. It depicts a rural scene with a tree, road, bridge, river, house and duck, and is classified as a landscape painting. The work was owned by Joannes Barnardus Antonius Maria Westerwoudt before entering the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, where it remains. The sources do not provide an explicit inventory or accession number, nor any documented exhibition history.
Overview
Paul Gabriël, a Dutch painter associated with the Hague School, completed Landscape at Kortenhoef in 1889. This oil painting captures a tranquil rural scene, featuring a small bridge crossing a river, alongside a house and a duck. It is part of the Rijksmuseum's collection, representing a characteristic example of the artist's engagement with the Dutch countryside.
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Artist
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël or Paul Gabriël (5 July 1828 – 23 August 1903) was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Hague School.
