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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.

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

1615–1652Dutch 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.