Dredging a Canal
17th century
Medium
Pen and black ink over black chalk, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 3 9/16 x 5 15/16 in. (9.1 x 15.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, and Werner H. Kramarsky and Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Lepow Gifts, 1994
Accession Number
1994.88
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About the Artist
Jacob van Ruisdael · 1623–1682
Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629–1682) was a Dutch painter and etcher who is widely regarded as the greatest landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age and one of the supreme landscape artists in Western art. Born in Haarlem, he was trained by his father, the frame-maker and painter Isaack van Ruisdael, and by his uncle, the landscape painter Salomon van Ruysdael. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild...