Waldlandschaft mit Hirten und Vieh
Waldlandschaft mit Hirten und Vieh c1857 by Dutch Painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803 – 1862); Paisaje con puente de piedra cerca de una casa por Barend Cornelis Koekkoek Cojín (1840 – 1912); a painter of the Romantic and Realism Styles who was a renowned marine painter.
This is an enchantingly beautiful wilderness landscape scene with plenty of tall lush green trees, with some being a reddish brown color, which may indicate the coming of autumn.
The expansive grass lands we can see a small herd of young and old cows grazing in the warm glow of the setting sun; and off to the left of the cows we can see what appears to be a small grave site.
There is a main road, and in the far distance we can see a single traveler; while closer to the viewer are two other travelers, one a female riding a top of a donkey and a man with a long walking stick beside the pair, with two male cows walking in front of them.
To the right of the scene on a hill we can see structure of some sort that may be religious nature, as there is a cross mounted on the roof of the structure.
There is also a gully on the left side of the scene that flows along side the path, cutting beneath it and exiting on the right, flowing farther down stream among the rocks and boulders and high terrain that form a path for the flowing water.
And finally in the scene are the beautiful billowing white clouds against a beautiful blue sky that that have beautiful golden accents, light rose accents and blue and grey accents; making the painting complete.
El paisaje forestal con pastores y ganado es una reproducción retocada de viejos maestros de arte digital de una imagen de dominio público.
Información a continuación derivada de Wikipedia.org
Barend era el hijo mayor del pintor y dibujante holandés Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek. (1778 – 1851) y Anna van Koolwijk, Nació en la provincia de Zelanda en octubre. 11, 1803; También tenía dos hermanos que también fueron pintores de éxito., Pintor marino Hermanus Koekkoek (1815–1882) y el pintor paisajista Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1807–1868); así como otro hermano Johannes Koekkoek.
Barend obtuvo su primera instrucción artística de su padre., continuando sus estudios en la Academia de Dibujo de Middelburg, donde estudió con el pintor holandés Abraham Krayestein (1793 – 1855) donde se matriculó 1817.
Barend decidió seguir una carrera como paisajista., en el que sobresalió, siendo llamado durante su vida el “Príncipe de las pinturas de paisajes” and was considered the greatest landscapist of his time; being regarded as the founding father of Dutch Romantic Landscape Painting.
His main landscape focus, was on creating woodland areas and forest, mainl with winter and summer themes; but painted them in all seasons of the year and fitted them with tiny figures of people and animals going about their daily lives; but a great emphasis on the majesty of nature and the greatness of creation.
Barend was one of the few artist to receive an endless list of artistic awards and decorations and was able to count as his clients King Friedrich-Wilhelm IV of Prussia (1795 – 1861), Tsar Alexander II (1818 – 1881), and King Willem II of the Netherlands (1792 – 1849).