# Extensive Rhenish Landscape

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MINDERHOUT, Hendrik van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 158 x 206 cm

## Commentary

This signed and dated painting depicts an extensive Rhenish landscape with peasants and animals resting in the shade of Romanesque ruins. Although Minderhout is better known as a marine painter, this grand, impressive landscape demonstrates his mastery of the landscape genre. While the light in the present painting is distinctly Italianate, the landscape is reminiscent of the Rhine valley, and the building at the extreme left is a capriccio of the Valkhof on the Rhine at Nijmegen.

## Related artworks

- [A Levantine Harbour](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/a-levantine-harbour-r9f54a771b7dcae>)
- [A Mediterranean Harbour Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/a-mediterranean-harbour-scene-r68ea897444dee9>)
- [Extensive View of a City](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/extensive-view-of-a-city-r02018966342c1e>)
- [The Battle of Lowestoft](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/the-battle-of-lowestoft-rc20baf9219a80a>)
- [The Handelskom at Bruges](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/the-handelskom-at-bruges-r90a99561717464>)

## Attribution

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