Figures in Rowing Boats in a Rocky Cove, Sailing Ships Beyond
Allart van Everdingen
1601 to 1650
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash on laidpaper
Dimensions
overall: 11 x 15.6 cm (4 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1977.36.1
About the Artist
Allart van Everdingen · 1621–1675
Allaert van Everdingen (1621-1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker who introduced Scandinavian landscape painting to the Netherlands. Born in Alkmaar and baptized on June 18, 1621, he pioneered a distinctive genre of Nordic mountain scenery that profoundly influenced Dutch landscape painting and later inspired the Romantic movement. Van Everdingen holds a unique place in art history...