Jan van Goyen is on of the most famous Dutch landscape painters of the Golden Age. The extremely low placement of the horizonal allows his paintings to be dominated by his grey, hazy skies. The distant horizon and minimal distinction between land and sky create a remarkable sense of space.
Specifications
| Title | Winterlandscape near Dordrecht |
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| Material and technique | Oil on panel |
| Object type |
Painting
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Width Error: 60,8 is not a valid BCD value cm Height 39 cm |
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| Artists |
Painter:
Jan van Goyen
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| Accession number | 1245 (OK) |
| Credits | Gift Friends of the Museum, 1929 |
| Department | Old Masters |
| Acquisition date | 1929 |
| Creation date | in 1644 |
| External exhibitions |
Levend Landschap (2022) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Jan van Goyen
Leiden 1596 - Den Haag 1656
Jan van Goyen received drawing and painting lessons from the age of ten, studying with various Haarlem artists including Coenraet van Schilperoort, Isaack van...
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