Fisherman in a River Landscape
Allart van Everdingen
1601 to 1650
Medium
pen and brush and brown ink
Dimensions
Overall: 8.3 x 15.1 cm (3 1/4 x 5 15/16 in.) support: 18.4 x 25.6 cm (7 1/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1973.38.1
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...