About this artwork
Evocative of a blustery spring day, this drawing by landscape specialist Everdingen includes a church with cloisters in the left background, a tower by the water’s edge at center, several boats navigating choppy water, and a group of figures looking into the composition instead of out toward the viewer. Everdingen is known to have created several series describing the months of the year, and a number 4 on the verso of this drawing suggests that it may have belonged to such a series, likely representing the month of April.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Allaert van Everdingen
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Title
- Landscape with Elegant Figures by a River, with Boats to the Right and a Town Behind Trees Beyond
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1641–1675
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Medium
- Brush and gray wash, with touches of white wash, over touches of charcoal, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed recto, lower left, in gray wash: "AVE"; inscribed verso, in brown ink: "4"
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Dimensions
- 14.7 × 19.4 cm (5 13/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 2013.936
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/198850/manifest.json
Extended information about this artwork
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