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Dune Landscape with Travelers and a Natural Bridge
Pieter Dircksz. van Santvoort (Dutch, about 1604–1635)
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Overall: 28.6 × 45.7 cm (11 1/4 × 18 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Kathleen Feldstein in memory of Martin Feldstein, and in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession Number2020.406
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, November 10, 2024 – February 9, 2025
On display at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, November 10, 2024 – February 9, 2025
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Together with Jan van Goyen and Pieter Molijn, Pieter van Santvoort pioneered the new tonal landscape style that centered on views of the Dutch countryside. His production is small because he died very young. Here he depicts an impending storm with ghostly, schematic figures hurrying through the landscape. This rare painting is comparable to his best-known work, part of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. As with the Berlin painting, Santvoort structures the composition along a rising diagonal and uses alternating areas of light and shadow that anticipate the work of Jacob van Ruisdael.
ProvenanceJuly 4, 2000, anonymous (“property of a lady”) sale, Phillips, London, lot 55 [see note], to Martin Feldstein (b. 1939 – d. 2019) and Kathleen Feldstein, Belmont, MA; 2020, gift of Kathleen Feldstein to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2020)
NOTE: Attributed in the catalogue to Esaias van de Velde.
NOTE: Attributed in the catalogue to Esaias van de Velde.