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Figures in an Outdoor Tavern
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Figures in an Outdoor Tavern

Jan Asselijn

1635–52

Medium

Black chalk, brush and brownis-gray wash, heightened with white; framing lines in brown ink, on blue paper

Tags

TavernsHuman Figures

Dimensions

sheet: 11 1/16 x 8 13/16 in. (28.1 x 22.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2006

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jan Asselijn

1600–1652 • Dutch Republic

Dutch painter and draftsman, of French descent. He was one of the most important artists of the second generation of Dutch italianates, with Jan Both and Jan Baptist Weenix. The Asselin family moved from Dieppe to Amsterdam ca. 1621 and adopted the Dutch spelling of their surname after 1650. Comment on works: Landscapes w/figures; Views

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