Boating Party on a River
Jan van Goyen
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). · Robert Lehman Collection
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.
- Artist
- Jan van Goyen
- Date
- 1651
- Medium
- 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).
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
