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A Landscape with a Carriage and Horsemen at a Pool

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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Although peaceful and still, this painting seems to hold many sounds: the rustle of leaves in a sudden breeze, the jingle of a harness and the splash of hooves in the water, quiet voices and dogs snuffling at the ground. We catch a glimpse of the patience needed to make such a journey. The women sit serenely side saddle while the carriage driver slumps over the reins. One man stares down at his horse as it drinks – his hand is on his hip, as if he’s perhaps a little less patient than others.

Salomon van Ruysdael seems to have painted an atmosphere as well as a view. He used restrained, muted colours, establishing a mood that, for a seventeenth-century Dutch collector, might evoke memories of twilight on journeys taken into the countryside.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

A Landscape with a Carriage and Horsemen at a Pool

Date

1659

Medium

Oil on oak

Measurements

H 49.9 x W 63.3 cm

Accession number

NG1344

Acquisition method

Bought, 1891

Work type

Painting

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