17th C. Stop of the travellers. Follower of Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem, 1619–Haarlem,1668), Oil on Panel
17th Century
Oil on panel
48 x 39.1 x 2.9 cm
18 7/8 x 15 3/8 x 1 1/8 in
18 7/8 x 15 3/8 x 1 1/8 in
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As the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman often did, this artist painted travelers stopping at an inn or a farm. One of the men got off his horse to urinate against the facade of the building. The motif of a peeing man was far from an exception in Dutch genre paintings of the time. The painting is built around diagonal axes, on the one hand formed by the horses standing on a diagonal line, as it were, and on the other hand by the sloping treetops. The tree stumps and branches in the foreground serve as repoussoir figures. This means that they add depth to the composition by pushing the other image elements into the background.