View of the Ponte Rotto, Rome, with Watermills
Jan Asselijn
late 1630s
Medium
Watercolor, over graphite, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
20 × 45.5 cm (7 7/8 × 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
155214
About the Artist
Jan Asselijn · 1610–1652
Jan Asselijn (c. 1610–1652), born Jean Asselin in Dieppe, France, to a Huguenot family, emerged as a leading figure in Dutch Golden Age landscape painting. His family relocated to Amsterdam around 1621, where he began his artistic training. He received instruction from Esaias van de Velde, a pioneering realist landscapist, and later studied with Jan Martszen the Younger, Esaias's nephew, producing...