03 — ARTWORK
View through an Arcade
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 131 x 152 cm
- TYPE
- Interior
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
This large canvasA woven cloth used as a support for painting. The best-quality canvas is made of linen; other materials used are cotton, hemp, and jute. It is now so familiar a material that the word 'canvas' has become almost a synonym for an oil painting, but it was not until around 1500 that it began to rival the wooden panel (which was more expensive and took longer to prepare) as the standard support for movable paintings (the transition came later in Northern Europe than in Italy). Canvas is not suitable for painting on until it has been coated with a ground, which isolates the fabric from the paint; otherwise it will absorb too much paint, only very rough effects will be obtainable, and parts of the fabric may be rotted by the pigments. It must also be made taut on a stretcher or by some other means. represents a vision of a palace architecture. It could be mistaken for an idealized souvenir of Rome if all the figures were not in Dutch costume. Most of them appear to come from the upper levels of society. The painting may be placed within a tradition of imaginary architectural painting that flourished in London and The Hague between about 1610 and 1650.
The painting is signed and dated lower right, on the columna vertical structural member having a circular cross-section and usually consisting of a base, a long shaft, and a capital. basemolded foot of a pillar or column providing the transition from the plinth to the shaft.: G. Houckgeest fe: 1638.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {View through an Arcade by HOUCKGEEST, Gerard},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/houckgeest-gerard-r60e42277751a4e/view-through-an-arcade-rb82b43200bdd4c},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
