Venetian Party in a Chateau Garden

Venetian Party in a Chateau Garden by David Vinckboons

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white on two sheets of paper joined vertically; incised for transfer; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 42.5 x 70.5 cm (16 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

Accession Number

1986.76.1

About the Artist

David Vinckboons · 15761632

David Vinckboons (baptized 13 August 1576 – c. 1632) was a Flemish-born painter who became a pivotal figure in the Dutch Golden Age. Born in Mechelen in the Southern Netherlands, he was the son of Philips Vinckboons, a watercolor painter on canvas, under whom he studied as his sole teacher, according to Karel van Mander. The family fled religious turmoil, moving first to Antwerp around 1580, then ...

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