Print from steel engraving titled „Ved Skovkanten“.

Artist Meindert Hobbema.

Engraved by W. French.

From „Balled-Galleri af beromte maleres vaerker, indeholdende staalstukne Gjengivelser af italienske, spanske, frannske, flanderske, hollandske og tydske Mesteres mest fremragende malerier. Mede n Raekke Portraiter i Traesnit og en efter de nyeste og bedste Skrifter udarbejdet biographist Text.“ Andet Bind. Kjobenhavn. P. G. Philipsens forlag. 1877.

Meindert Hobbema (bapt. October 31, 1638 – December 7, 1709), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Born to Lubbert Meynerts and Rinsje Eduwarts, Hobbema was baptized as Meyndert Lubbertsz in Amsterdam on October 31, 1638. At the age of 15, he and his younger brother and sister are recorded as having been sent to an orphanage Although he signed his name M. Hobbema on paintings as early as 1658, he used only his baptized name on legal documents until 1660. Meindert Hobbema specialized in painting wooded landscapes inspired by the flat countryside of the eastern region of the Dutch Republic. Almost without exception Hobbema's subject matter was drawn from the heavily wooded landscape of the eastern Netherlands. The majority of his paintings fall into the following categories: 1) dirt roads by farms in woods; 2) water mills near or set back into woods; 3) pools at the edge of woods, usually with farms or villages in the distance; and 4) ruins in woods. Today Hobbema is viewed as one of the most characteristic and highly valued Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century, but he is not mentioned in a single seventeenth-century literary source. The earliest reference to his work occurs in Johan van Gool’s 1751 lexicon of Dutch artists, where Hobbema is mentioned in passing as having painted “modern landscapes.”

Approx. image size 19, 4 x 13, 6/28, 2 x 20 cm.

Condition: medium.