The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)
c. 1665
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About this work
A pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, Meindert Hobbema often borrowed motifs from his teacher, such as the watermill seen here. Watermills, which Hobbema employed more than 30 times in his paintings and which abounded along country waterways, would have been understood as symbols of human transience and Dutch industriousness. The well-dressed figures farther along the path at the left are intended to suggest the rewards of productivity and diligence.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 81.3 × 110 cm (32 × 43 1/4 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 10 exhibitions
Provenance
- Possibly John Ellis, London 1755.
- Possibly Lord Mount Temple.
- Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1890; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 1890, together with a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, using funds advanced by four trustees and reimbursed through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan in 1903.
Exhibitions
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, 1902/1903.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934.
- New York World’s Fair, Masterpieces of Art, 1939.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dutch Painting.
- The Golden Age, An Exhibition of Dutch Pictures of the Seventeenth Century under the High Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, 1954/1955, traveled to Toledo Museum of Art.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, 1974, no cat. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape, October 2, 1987- January 3, 1988; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 3-May 1, 1988; Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 5-July 31, 1988.
- Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Die Entdeckung der Landscaft.
- Meisterwerke der niederländischen Kunst des 16. und 17.
- Jahrhunderts, 2005.
