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Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf
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This untamed view of nature anticipates picturesque features of Romanticism. Van Nijmegen, though, was also inspired by 17th-century Dutch painters, such as Jacob van Ruisdael. He had seen the subject of this painting –a landscape with ruins and drovers driving an ox-wagon over a wooden bridge –while travelling along the Rhine in 1788. He described it in his journal.
Title: Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf
Description:
This untamed view of nature anticipates picturesque features of Romanticism.
Van Nijmegen, though, was also inspired by 17th-century Dutch painters, such as Jacob van Ruisdael.
He had seen the subject of this painting –a landscape with ruins and drovers driving an ox-wagon over a wooden bridge –while travelling along the Rhine in 1788.
He described it in his journal.
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