An Explosion near a Village

Dirk Langendijk

1805 (?) · Pen and brown and black ink, brush and gray ink; framing line in pen and brown ink · Drawings and Prints

As a specialist of battle scenes, Langendijk was a master of depicting tiny figures in motion—in this instance the flailing bodies of soldiers and horses propelled into the air by an explosion. With deft control of his pen and brush, the artist leaves parts of the paper untouched to read as the light emitted by the blast.

Artist

Dirk Langendijk

Date

1805 (?)

Medium

Pen and brown and black ink, brush and gray ink; framing line in pen and brown ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Anonymous Gift, 2015