Nº 84
Reading edition
Nicolaas Bastert DUTCH: 1854-
A RIVER VIEW IN HOLLAND
Height, 25½ inches; length, 38½ inches
A whitewashed farmhouse stands in a low meadow near a broad canal on the right of the composition, surrounded by pollarded willows and other trees. A small boat with a single oarsman is just leaving the shore at a rude landing near the farmhouse, and in the distance a number of peasants are seen at work in a cultivated field, their white garments gleaming in the sunlight. The quiet waters of the canal reflect the opposite shore, with its row of poplars and long farm buildings, and in the immediate foreground the trees and the cottages are mirrored in the still water. Great sunlit cumuli lazily float high up in the clear sky, and are reflected here and there in the canal.
Signed at the lower left, N. Bastert.