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Kattekopjes
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Geïnteresseerd in kunst en geschiedenis / interested in art and history. Posts in Dutch and/or in English.
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Hendrik Gerard ten Hoet, Aulandschaft, drei Störche in einem Tümpel mit Seerosen / Floodplain landscape, three storks in a pond with water lilies (1884). Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #storks #trees #clouds #water
In the foreground a stretch of water with water lilies. At the edge of the water three storks against a backdrop of reeds. In the distance above the reeds a small line of greenery with on the far right a few trees poking out. To the left of the reeds a patch of grass. On the far left and in the centre background trees. Blue sky with clouds.
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Pieter Plas, Winterlandschap (1838). Collectie: Stedelijk Museum, Alkmaar

#art #painting #19thcentury #snow #winter #ice #sled #skating #farmhouse #trees
Winter landscape with a farmhouse with a pyramidal thatched roof covered in snow. Tall trees flank the farmhouse. A man with a sled and a child skating are going past a rowing boat lying on the side of the water in broken ice.
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Frans de Hulst, Meeresbucht mit alter Festung / Bay with Old Fortification (±1650/60). Collection: Kunstmuseum Basel

#art #painting #17thcentury #river #castle #clouds
Left foreground: riverside or seaside(?) with people and a dog. Close by, in the water, a rowing boat with three people. Right centre: a large castle with a water gate; another rowing boat near that gate. On the lefthand side of the castle a sailing boat. In the distance more sailing boats.
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Francesco Guardi, Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge, Venice (c. 1780). Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

#art #painting #18thcentury #cityscape #Italy #bridge #buildings #boats #canal
Focal point of the painting, slightly to the right of centre, is the Rialto Bridge. People are everywhere; on the bridge, looking out of windows, walking the quays, or being rowed about in gondolas. On the left-hand side: market barges with canvas coverings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Eduard Alexander Hilverdink, Gezicht op Hof van Sonoy (1867). Collectie: Stedelijk Museum, Alkmaar

#art #painting #cityscape #19thcentury #building #Alkmaar
View from the street of the residence of Diederik Sonoy. A small bridge leads from the street to the gate. On the left the house with a stepped gable. The gate leads to the courtyard of what was once the monastery of Sint Maria Magdalena. A later resident had the octagonal tower built which can be seen in the centre of the picture. Outside the gate three men and one woman going about their business.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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John MacWhirter (1839-1911), Dawn Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland [no date]. Collection: National Galleries Schotland

#art #painting #19thcentury #river #England
Looking out towards the sea with the Royal Border Bridge over the river Tweed in the centre of the picture. Church tower above the town on the left-hand side
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Claude Monet, Poplars on the Epte (1891). Collection: National Galleries of Scotland

#art #painting #19thcentury #impressionism #France #river #trees
A row of poplar trees on the banks of the River Epte, seen against a blue sky with white clouds. The line of trees graduated from halfway on the right getting smaller towards the left. Foreground: the water of the river with the reflection of the trees.
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Willem de Zwart, Veemarkt / Cattle market (1914). Collectie: Groninger Museum

#art #painting #cattle #cows #people #market #buildings
Background from left to right: a row of houses with trees and a street lamp in front of them. Central in the picture: a small cattle market on a square. Several farmers standing amongst the cows. The cow nearest the front is looking to the left and has a cloth draped over its backside.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Hendrik Jan Wolter (1873-1952), Gezicht op de Theems bij Londen (The Pool) [no date]. Collectie: Museum Flehite, Amersfoort

#art #painting #19thcentury #20thcentury #Thames #London #water #boats #waterscape #river
Harbour view of the Thames with various ships and cranes. Tower Bridge can be seen on the horizon. Sun reflected in the water.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Newton Fielding, Skiff and Ducks on the Waterfront (1830). Collection: Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, Paris

#art #watercolour #19thcentury #boat #ducks
Waterfront scene with a small wooden boat on a clump of reeds attached to a post by a chain. Six ducks on the sandy shore. On the left some shrubs.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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William Whitehead Ratcliffe (1870 - 1955), The Spaniard's Inn Garden (before 1926). Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery

#art #watercolour #19thcentury #20thcentury #garden #flowers
Fenced garden with central round flowerbed surrounded by a path. Entrance gate on the right. Outside the fence trees and a wooden shed.
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Willem Bastiaan Tholen, Huizen in aanbouw (1895). Collectie: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

#art #painting #buildings #construction #wheelbarow #carpentry #19thcentury
Central in the picture a large workshop made of wooden slats in front of which workmen are sawing planks. In the foreground a wheelbarrow upside down. On the left scaffolding and a ladder with more workmen; one carrying roof tiles on his shoulder. From top right to behind the workshop a row of houses.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Johan Thomas Lundbye, Autumn landscape. Hankehøj near Vallekilde (1847). Collection: The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #cattle #bluesky #clouds
In the centre of the picture, a shepherd with 4 cows on a grassy slope. Small hill beyond the shepherd is a burial mound. The few trees on the hillock are leaning to the left. Left foreground a few boulders and nettles. Blue sky with clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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P.v.O. [Pieter van Oort (?)], house in Cape Town (1826). Collection: Wereldmuseum, Amsterdam

#art #watercolour #19thcentury #house #mountain
A watercolour of a house in Cape Town at the foot of Table Mountain. In the centre of the picture, a woman and child are standing at the top of some steps on a covered walkway which leads to the house on the right. Plants are growing on the ground and along the roof of the walkway. The mountain looms over the house.
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Jean Brusselmans, Vuurtoren te Oostende (1936). Collectie: Mu.ZEE, Art Museum by the Sea, Oostende

#art #painting #20thcentury #lighthouse #harbour #boats #clouds
From the website: Central to this image of the harbour of Ostend is a white lighthouse. It dominates the scene, silhouetted against a cloudy sky. Two fishing boats are moored at the quayside, defining the foreground of the canvas. The quayside is bordered by a light grey horizontal line spanning the entire width of the painting. A third fishing boat is positioned in the harbour, between the quayside and the pier. Houses, sheds, and a factory building are in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Jan Stanisławski, Hollyhocks – Polish Autumn (1900). Collection: National Museum, Krakow

#art #painting #20thcentury #garden #flowers
The left-hand side of the painting is fully taken up by the long flowering spikes of hollyhocks. They stand by the side of a path that runs from right to left. Behind the path a lawn with at the opposite side a large tree and a shrub.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Jan van Goyen, Selská usedlost v dunách / Farmhouse in the dunes (1631). Collection: National Gallery, Prague

#art #painting #17thcentury #landscape #farm #people #dunes
Dune landscape with low horizon. In the centre of the picture, an old farmhouse facing to the right with trees opposite the entrance. Two people sitting on the ground in the right foreground; one standing and leaning on a stick. Two more people sitting on the ground in the left foreground and two near the house. In the distance on the right a church tower.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), Landstraße mit einer roten Kutsche. Collection: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

#art #drawing #watercolour #17thcentury #landscape #coach
Coach seen from the back going towards a town seen in the distance on the right. On the left beside the coach a grassy hill, on the right a field with shrubs and a tree
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Georgette Chen, Boats in Soochow (c. 1946). Collection: National Gallery Singapore

#art #painting #20thcentury #boats #buildings #China #Suzhou
Foreground: water; centre: wooden boats at the quayside, laden with goods; background: houses; far right, a single tree
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Claude Monet, Häuser in Argenteuil (1873). Collection: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

#art #painting #impressionism #19thcentury #buildings #flowers
Horizontal row of free-standing houses with red roof tiles. A row of small trees in front between the houses and the viewer and a field of flowers in the foreground. Behind the houses larger trees and a church tower. Cloudy sky.
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Silva Porto, A Wheat Field – Harvest (Outskirts of Paris) (1879). Collection: Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #bluesky #harvest
Two people with scythes harvesting wheat. Two haystacks visible. Foreground the field that has been done; halfway the picture, the field they are working on. In the distance on the left a few trees. Blue sky with clouds.
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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August Lucas, Paysage d'Italie (1852). Collection: Musées Nationaux Récupération, Musée du Louvre, Paris

#art #painting #landscape #19thcentury #mountains #lake #buildings #cattle #bluesky
Landscape in Italy with mountains in the distance; lake in the centre; dotted around the lake various houses; a larger one in the centre of the painting. Foreground left: a woman at a well, tapping water. Close by 5 cows with horns and a shepherd. Between her and the lake pine trees. Foreground right, a rectangular piece of water.
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Varnished lacquer pasteboard and leather cover of One Hundred Sayings (Ṣad Kalima) of Imām `Alī (c.1500-1510). Collection: Chester Beatty, Dublin

#art #lacquer #varnish #leather #bookcover #Iran #16thcentury
Book cover with a border of stylized leaves and flowers, edged on the inner side with double gold square. Within the square the cover is completely filled with branches and flowers in various colours.
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Josina Margareta Weenix 91684-1724), Still Life with Fruit and a Vista. Collection: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent

#art #painting #stilllife #17thcentury #18thcentury #fruit #nuts
Arrangement of fruit on a stone slab: white and blue grapes, peaches, and melons. Plums and hazelnuts on the table in front of the fruit. Behind the fruit a branch with some leaves in autumn colours.
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Marianne North, Banksia of Tasmania (1881). Collection: Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

#art #painting #landscape #mountain #trees
Landscape with a mountain in the distance behind a wooded area. The sky is turning yellow (early morning?) Centre of the picture a river with grassy slopes. On the left a tree; on the right in the foreground and across the top a few branches of a banksia with several flower spikes.
October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM