Landscape with a Village Road

Private collection

landscape

This painting is one of a pair of landscapes dominated by stately oaks and brooding skies. It depicts a landscape with a village road and figures conversing in the right foreground. A dense growth of trees encroaches on the village, having already hidden from sight a cottage nestled in its midst.

About the Artist

Cornelis Gerritsz Decker

1618 – 1678

Dutch painter. He is a relatively little-known Dutch landscape painter who was active in Haarlem. His work is in the manner of Jacob van Ruisdael who was his teacher. He also imitated the style of Jan Wynants and Philips Wouwerman.

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