Village on a River
Cleveland Museum of Art

Village on a River

Jan Jansz den Uyl (Dutch, 1595/96–1639/40) · 1620–25

black chalk, with transparent and opaque watercolor in blue, green-blue, gray, and ochre, framing line in brown ink on antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

In the 1620s, when this small drawing was made, sketching landscape scenes <em>en plein air</em> (on-site) was still relatively new in the Netherlands.

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