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The Unloading of the Barge
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The Unloading of the Barge

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 4 1/2 × 4 9/16 in. (11.4 × 11.6 cm) Plate: 4 3/16 × 4 7/16 in. (10.6 × 11.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Allart van Everdingen

1621–1675Dutch Republic

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.