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Leper House at Cleves
Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656)
1650–51
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 9.8 × 15.8 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund Income
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Five drawings (1961.378-1961.382) were once bound in a small sketchbook of approximately 200 pages. Because it was light and portable, Jan van Goyen could tuck it into his pocket while walking in search of inspiration. Sketchbooks allowed the artist to quickly delineate sand dunes and architectural structures in the vicinity of his residence in The Hague and farther afield. These landscape sketches in black chalk and ink wash relate—directly and indirectly—to compositions the artist later realized in oil paintings.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
