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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The location of this scene has been identified as near the junction of the River Moselle and the Rhine. It is not so much the topography of the landscape which is the main feature of the painting, however, but the drama of the storm which envelopes it. While dark rain clouds sweep across the background the bending branches of the large trees in the foreground show the force of the wind. The small figures on the dust track, straining to control their animals, complete the Romantic notion of the great effort of man against the divine forces of nature. | Subjects: | cattle) landscape; figure; animal (horse | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Koekkoek, Barend Cornelis (Dutch artist, 1803-1862) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8843... | Go to resource |
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