Muleteers beside an Italian Ruin

Jan Asselijn

ca. 1650

Muleteers beside an Italian Ruin by Jan Asselijn

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

67; 82

About this artwork

Bruikleen van de gemeente Amsterdam (legaat A. van der Hoop)

About the Artist

Jan Asselijn · 16101652

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...

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