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| Castle by a River |
Artist:Jan van Goyen (Dutch, Leiden 1596–1656 The Hague)
Date:1647
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:26 x 38 1/4 in. (66 x 97.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Edith Neuman de Végvár, in honor of her husband, Charles Neuman de Végvár, 1964
Accession Number:64.65.1
Many of Van Goyen's pioneering river views of the 1630s employ the diagonal recession, the repoussoir of a boat in the foreground, and the tonal palette found in this large panel of 1647. Here, however, there is a greater emphasis on the sky (compare View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer of 1646, 71.62), and on a restful balance of horizontal and vertical elements. A similar sense of grandeur was soon to appear in the work of younger landscape painters such as Jacob van Ruisdael.
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