Pieter van Santvoort

Dune Landscape with a Country Road

Pieter van Santvoort Duinlandschap met een landweggetje Dune Landscape with a Country Road
Pieter van Santvoort Duinlandschap met een landweggetje Dune Landscape with a Country Road
Pieter van Santvoort Duinlandschap met een landweggetje Dune Landscape with a Country Road
Pieter van Santvoort Duinlandschap met een landweggetje Dune Landscape with a Country Road
Pieter van Santvoort Duinlandschap met een landweggetje Dune Landscape with a Country Road
Pieter van Santvoort Duinlandschap met een landweggetje Dune Landscape with a Country Road

Pieter van Santvoort
Dune Landscape with a Country Road

On view in Room 13

A sandy road with cart tracks winds among the dunes. Meadows are interspersed with copses, a farmhouse and a church tower. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, landscapes were often unrealistic, but this changed around 1630, when artists started painting places that were increasingly recognisable. This simple landscape by Pieter van Santvoort is an early example of this new type of landscape.

Technical details
Pieter van Santvoort Duinlandschap met een landweggetje Dune Landscape with a Country Road

Pieter van Santvoort
Dune Landscape with a Country Road

On view in Room 13

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Details

General information
Artist Pieter van Santvoort (Amsterdam 1604/1605 - 1635 Amsterdam)
Title Dune Landscape with a Country Road
Object name painting
Inventory number 1096
On view in Room 13
Material and technical details
Technique oil
Material panel
Dimensions 31.5 x 46 cm
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower left: p. Santvoo[r]t 162[.]
indistinct

Provenance

Possibly sale Amsterdam, 3 June 1919, no. 29; D. Katz Gallery, Dieren, 1940; Jacques Goudstikker Gallery/Alois Miedl, Amsterdam; sold to E. Gritzbach, Berlin; Hermann Göring, Berlin; Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (inv. no. NK 2650); on loan from the Cultural Heritage Agency of The Netherlands, 1993-2010; transferred, 2010

Second World War

This painting is part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection (‘NK collection’): objects that were stolen, seized or purchased during the Nazi regime. After the Second World War they were placed under the administration of the Dutch State. In recent decades, applications for restitution are taken into consideration again and some objects have been returned to the heirs of their rightful owners.

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