Meadow landscape with cattle Roelofs, Willem 1880 Unlike the Romantic painters, the artists of the Hague School had an eye for the beauty of the polder. Instead of romantic, varied landscapes, they painted green meadows with a wide horizon, in which cows lie still and ruminate. This earned them appreciation and created the image of the Netherlands as a green, flat polder landscape under grey-blue skies. Rijksmuseum Rights: CC0
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