Muleteers beside an Italian Ruin
Jan Asselijn
ca. 1650
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 · 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...