Boating Party on a River
Jan van Goyen made hundreds of chalk sketches from nature in his travels around the Netherlands. This river scene may have been first drawn in chalk with brown and possibly gray washes; the uncharacteristic colored washes are a later addition. The scenery is modeled on the village of Leiderdorp, situated on the Oude Rijn near Leiden. Its inhabitants add a lively touch to this otherwise spare sheet.
Credit: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
1651
Black chalk with pale washes (reddish brown in the sky, greenish gray in the water, green and gray in the trees, red in the figure in the boat).
19.9 x 30.4cm
1975.1.775
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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