Meindert Hobbema (attributed to) Lot n° 244

Meindert Hobbema (attributed to) (Amsterdam 1638-Amsterdam 1709) The large oaks oil on canvas 57x71 cm - with frame 90x105 cm Meindert Hobbema's majestic landscapes were particularly appreciated and taken as a model by French and particularly English painters in the eighteenth century. Furthermore, unlike his Dutch contemporaries, Hobbema placed not the city, with its majestic architecture, but the rural landscape that he could see at the center of his art. It is therefore not surprising that John Constable deeply loved his way of representing nature, with its trees with lush foliage, the small streams overlooked by curious fishermen and old abandoned farmhouses, drawing great inspiration from them. Signed lower right Reference bibliography: Georges Broulhiet, André Barry, Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1709), Firmin Didot, Paris 1938, pp. 141-143; pp. 387-388