Landscape with Canal
Adriaen van de Velde (1636 - 1672)
Framesize 47.00 x 56.60 x 3.00 cm
Collection Czernin, Vienna; 4.6.1980, acquisition (Rudolf Czernin), Residenzgalerie Salzburg
JUFFINGER 2010, vol. 1, pp. 258-259, vol. 2, pp. 538-539
JUFFINGER, WALDERDORFF 2015, p. 167
His "Landscape with Canal" is dated 1663. 159 years later, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller copied it for study purposes in the Czernin gallery, which was open to the public.
A herd of goats and sheep with dogs enliven the foreground of the landscape. Bushes and pollard willows form a barrier to the lower-lying grazing meadows with cattle. The canal is lined by pavilions evidently belonging to the houses behind. The "division of labour" is noticeable: on the left a milkmaid is busy; in contrast, guarded by the dog sitting beside him, a shepherd lies on his stomach, dreaming the day away.
Ducke Astrid: Adriaen van de Velde, Landscape with Canal, in: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 222-223
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