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
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...