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View of the Capitoline Hill in Rome

Jan Asselijn

ca. 1636 - ca. 1640

Medium

black chalk, with two shades of greyish-brown wash; framing line in black ink (partially trimmed)

Dimensions

h 259mm × w 392mm

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Materials

paper; chalk; ink

Object Type

drawing

Subject Matter

landscape with ruins; public road (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage); ruin of a building ~ architecture; temple, shrine ~ Roman religion

Production Place

? Rome

Acquisition Method

purchase

Acquired

1966

Notes

black chalk, with two shades of greyish-brown wash; framing line in black ink (partially trimmed)

Collection Type

drawings

About Jan Asselijn

1600–1652 • Dutch Republic

Dutch painter and draftsman, of French descent. He was one of the most important artists of the second generation of Dutch italianates, with Jan Both and Jan Baptist Weenix. The Asselin family moved from Dieppe to Amsterdam ca. 1621 and adopted the Dutch spelling of their surname after 1650. Comment on works: Landscapes w/figures; Views