Landschap, mogelijk met een omheining 1881 - 1927

This landscape with possible fence was drawn by Johan Antonie de Jonge, probably on paper, with some sort of graphite stick or pencil. It’s all about the mark-making here, right? A jumble of charcoal lines suggest the forms of trees, and maybe some cows or sheep clustered behind a fence, as the title suggests. You can almost feel de Jonge's hand moving quickly across the paper, trying to capture the light and the feeling of the place, you know? I bet he was standing out in the field itself! You see so much landscape drawing from this period. It’s like artists were trying to understand the world through observation, and sharing that sense of observation as a kind of experience. It makes me want to grab a pencil and go outside.