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Rocky Landscape

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Rocky Landscape

mid-17th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over traces of black chalk, heightened with white. Framing line in pen and brown ink.

Tags

Landscapes Trees

Dimensions

10 5/16 x 7 15/16 in. (26.2 x 20.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1971

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jan Both

1615–1652 • Dutch Republic

Brother of Andries Both, he was one of the foremost painters among the second generation of Dutch Italianates. While working in Italy he specialized in genre scenes; however, on his return to the Netherlands he concentrated on detailed, wooded landscapes bathed in a golden light. Comment on works: Genre; Landscapes; Views.

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