Landschap met trekschuit en molen op de achtergrond

About this artwork

Deze prent behoort tot een prentserie met diverse landschappen in prent gebracht door Auguste Numans naar voorbeelden van andere kunstenaars.

Art Historical Context

This etching by Auguste Numans captures a serene Dutch landscape featuring a traditional canal boat, known as a trekschuit, gliding through the water with a windmill rising in the distance. Created between 1833 and 1879, the work measures just 190 by 253 millimeters, demonstrating the intimate scale often favored for prints meant for personal collections or albums. Numans produced this piece as part of a larger series of landscape etchings, translating compositions by other artists into the etching medium. Etching allowed for fine detail and tonal subtlety, making it an ideal technique for reproducing atmospheric scenes that celebrated the Netherlands’ iconic waterways and rural architecture during the nineteenth century. Such prints played an important role in disseminating images of Dutch heritage, offering viewers both at home and abroad a glimpse of the country’s characteristic light, water, and windmills through an accessible and reproducible art form.

About the Artist

Auguste Numans · 1822–1901

Auguste Numans (1822–1901) was a Belgian painter, draftsman, and printmaker whose career spanned the full breadth of Belgium's cultural golden age in the 19th century. Born on April 22, 1823, in Brussels (though some historical records suggest Antwerp), and dying on October 16, 1901, in Brussels, Numans worked during a period when Belgian art achieved international recognition through figures like...