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Landscape with Travellers before an Inn near a Watering Place
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Landscape with Travellers before an Inn near a Watering Place

Salomon van Ruysdael · 1660 · panel; oil paint (paint)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

A group of travelers rests at a stopping place. Without dismounting, the riders drink and their horses are also cared for. The low viewpoint chosen by the painter gives the painting a monumental impression. The diagonal line in the composition also has a strong effect: the stream leads the viewer's eye from the buildings in the foreground to the church in the distance.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineLandscape with Travellers before an Inn near a Watering Place. 1660. Salomon van Ruysdael. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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