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Landscape with Elegant Figures by a River, with Boats to the Right and a Town Behind Trees Beyond

A work made of 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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  • A work made of brush and gray wash, with touches of white wash, over touches of charcoal, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Allart van Everdingen
Dutch, 1621-1675

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Allaert van Everdingen

Title

Landscape with Elegant Figures by a River, with Boats to the Right and a Town Behind Trees Beyond

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1641–1675

Medium

Brush and gray wash, with touches of white wash, over touches of charcoal, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left, in gray wash: "AVE"; inscribed verso, in brown ink: "4"

Dimensions

14.7 × 19.4 cm (5 13/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.936

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