Hamlet in the Wood Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638-1709). Hamlet in the Wood, 1660-1665. Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 51 5/8 in. ( x cm). The Amsterdam painter Meindert Hobbema depicted the calm, flat landscape of the Dutch Republic—newly independent from Spain—at a time when global trade and colonial exploitation had made the country extremely prosperous. Executed on an ambitious scale with a fluid touch, this painting features eight figures peacefully inhabiting a hamlet, or small settlement, in a wooded landscape under an expansive, clouded sky. European Art 1660-1665

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