# Landscape with a Figure

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VRIES, Roelof van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-roelof-van-r7e1f8447a5b650>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on panel, 42 x 63 cm

## Commentary

This painting represents a landscape with a figure on a path and a bleaching field beyond. In the seventeenth century, Holland had a virtual monopoly on cotton bleaching, and bleachers played a crucial role in the textile industry. Jacob van Ruisdael, van Vries&#39;s tutor, also painted several images of the bleaching fields around Haarlem. Previously, the painting was incorrectly attributed to Meindert Hobbema.

## Related artworks

- [The Pigeon House](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-roelof-van-r7e1f8447a5b650/the-pigeon-house-rfb3c961d1cf8b3>)
- [Travellers on a Road, Resting beside a Walled Church](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-roelof-van-r7e1f8447a5b650/travellers-on-a-road-resting-beside-a-walled-church-r58b431c96cc12b>)
- [View of a Village](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vries-roelof-van-r7e1f8447a5b650/view-of-a-village-rb6e89c7d5591f9>)

## Attribution

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