Vrouw met hond voor bouwval aan een toren 1782 - 1837

"Vrouw met hond voor bouwval aan een toren" (Woman with a Dog in Front of a Ruin by a Tower) is a watercolor painting by Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, a Dutch artist born in 1772. The painting is housed in the Rijksmuseum and depicts a woman with a dog walking past a crumbling tower and a nearby building. The scene is set in a rural landscape with trees and a fence in the foreground, and the overall tone of the piece is nostalgic and somewhat melancholic. The painting exemplifies the genre of Romanticism, with its focus on nature and the beauty of the ordinary.