# Barnyard Scene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POEL, Egbert van der]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 54 x 44 cm ## Commentary In contrast to Van der Poel's nocturnal pictures, this painting shows a brightly sunlit farmyard. In the foreground various farm animals go about their business surrounded by a jumble of baskets and buckets, a barrel, a wheel, a harness, a broken pot, a shoe, and an old hat. The farmer has climbed up a ladder to inspect a dovecote. The yard is enclosed by buildings and a fence, allowing only a glimpse of the land beyond. Van der Poel does not attempt a truthful portrayal of life on a farm with all its hardships and inconveniences. He presents, rather, an idealized image of rural tranquillity that was meant to appeal to the ideals of an urban clientele. ## Related artworks - [Barn Interior]() - [Barnyard Scene \(detail\)]() - [Celebration by Torchlight on the Oude Delft]() - [Cottage with a Still-Life of Kitchen Utensils]() - [Fire in a Village]() - [Seashore by Moonlight]() - [The Explosion of the Delft Magazine]() - [The Fair]() - [View of Delft after the Explosion of 1654]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()