BLOEMAERT, Abraham
(b. 1566, Gorinchem, d. 1651, Utrecht)

Farmyard with Dovecote

1630-33
Oil on panel, 38 x 29 cm
Private collection

This is a pure landscape without narrative, rare within Bloemaert's oeuvre. It shows a dovecote - or a structure that holds doves and pigeons - towers over a bucolic farmyard, and its solid structure pleasingly contrasts with an undulating landscape below and billowing clouds behind it.




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