Crossing the Rhine

Description

A group of mounted figures occupies the near bank of a broad river, while many smaller people and horses spread through the landscape beyond. A pale horse near the foreground stands out against darker uniforms and earth. Water and low terrain extend toward distant buildings, giving the gathering the character of an event taking place across a much larger area.

About Crossing the Rhine Reproduction

The closest riders establish scale and direction. Their bodies overlap, and the contrasting colors of the horses help separate one figure from another. Farther away, the marks become finer and the activity reads more as a moving formation than a set of individual portraits. The river offers an open band through which these different distances can be compared.

Crossing the Rhine is the catalogue identity of the work; the visible composition supports an interest in mounted movement, river terrain and the organization of a large group. The changing scale of the horses makes the foreground company feel connected with the wider movement beyond the river. You can follow the nearest horse, then move outward toward the scattered activity and the distant shore, letting the landscape explain the scale of the undertaking.

The hand-painted reproduction

ByMuseum offers Crossing the Rhine by Adam François van der Meulen as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas. Choose enough width for the river and distant groups to remain part of the scene. A larger canvas can help distinguish the nearest riders from the much smaller formations beyond them, especially when the picture will hang above furniture and be seen from several steps away.

• River crossing subject with prominent foreground horses.
• Wide military landscape extending toward distant buildings.
• Painted individually in oil on canvas.
• Select the available size and presentation on this page.