Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)
after Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638-1709)
River and Rural Scene
INV-7610
Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)
after Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638-1709)1769
River and Rural Scene
Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822) after Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638-1709) →mezzotintprint
Date
1769
Medium
Mezzotint on paper
Dimensions
Image: 41.5 × 53 cm (16 3/8 × 20 7/8 in.); Plate: 45.5 × 53.2 cm (17 15/16 × 21 in.); Sheet: 46.8 × 54.2 cm (18 7/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Langdon Pearse
The English printmaker Richard Earlom produced multiple mezzotints of Old Master works, including this scene by the 17th-century Dutch painter Meindert Hobbema. Characteristic of Hobbema’s style is the shaded foreground, with occasional flickers of light that lengthen the shadows of figures and cows and contrast with an area of warm light in the background. Hobbema’s works show a desire to present landscape as an idyllic environment, ordered and regulated by man, an idea that spoke to Earlom, as is clear in many of his own orderly landscapes and market scenes.