Figures in an Outdoor Tavern
1635–52
Medium
Black chalk, brush and brownis-gray wash, heightened with white; framing lines in brown ink, on blue paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11 1/16 x 8 13/16 in. (28.1 x 22.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2006
Accession Number
2006.394
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Jan Asselijn · 1610–1652
Jan Asselijn (c. 1610–1652), born Jean Asselin in Dieppe, France, to a Huguenot family, emerged as a leading figure in Dutch Golden Age landscape painting. His family relocated to Amsterdam around 1621, where he began his artistic training. He received instruction from Esaias van de Velde, a pioneering realist landscapist, and later studied with Jan Martszen the Younger, Esaias's nephew, producing...