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We look across a body of calm water onto a wooden pier, rowboats, sailboats, and a town on the distant shore, all beneath a cloudy sky that takes up the top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape. The pier extends into the scene from the left edge, and stretches about a quarter of the way across the painting’s width. Three men and a woman, all with light skin, stand in a group near a fourth man, who sits on a piling at the front corner. They all wear charcoal-gray, muted blue, or fawn-brown clothing and hats. A rifle leans against the hip of one man, and another man looks out at the…

A Pier Overlooking Dordrecht

Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620 - 1691)

early 1640s · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Gift of George M. and Linda H. Kaufman

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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