The Little Bridge

The Little Bridge
Artist	Gillis Rombouts
Completion date	undated
Medium	oil painting on panel (oak)
Movement	Dutch Golden Age painting Landscape painting
Subject	A wooden bridge over a canal
Dimensions	70 cm × 104 cm (28 in × 41 in)[1]
Location	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession	1899

The Little Bridge is an undated landscape painting by the Dutch painter Gillis Rombouts. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 423.^[2]

Writing in 1894, the specialist Cornelis Hofstede de Groot described this painting as one of Rombout's masterpieces. At that time, it belonged to the collection of Martin Schubart [de] in Dresden. In the year of Schubart's death, 1899, the collection was sold at an auction in Munich, where Georg Dehio bought the painting on behalf of the Strasbourg museum, for 2,900 Mark.^[1]

The Little Bridge is signed but not dated. It depicts a little wooden bridge over a canal, in which some ducks are swimming. The largest house on the right has been identified as an inn.^[2][1]

References

1. Mandrella, David (February 2009). Collection du musée des Beaux-Arts – Peinture flamande et hollandaise XVème-XVIIIème siècle. Strasbourg: Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. p. 251. ISBN 978-2-35125-030-3.
2. "Le petit pont". Base Joconde. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

External links

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