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Winter Landscape with Skaters and Fishermen
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Winter Landscape with Skaters and Fishermen

Medium

Black chalk with gray wash; two framing lines, the first in brush and gray ink by Van Goyen himself, the second in pen and dark brown ink added later.

Dimensions

4 7/16 x 7 11/16 in. (11.3 x 19.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Rights

Public Domain

About Jan van Goyen

1596–1656Dutch Republic

Important Dutch landscapist known for his so-called 'tonal style'. Comment on works: Landscapes; Marines; Views.