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Horseman and Hunter in the Woods of Doorwerth, Near Arnhem
Lambert Doomer (Dutch, 1624-1700)
c. 1670
- Medium
- Pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown and gray washes, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 23.5 × 41.1 cm (9 5/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This elaborate work demonstrates the full embrace of drawing as an art form in its own right. Lambert Doomer visited the site represented here earlier in his career, and on that occassion he created a less refined, though similarly accurate rendering of its topography. Over a decade later, he returned to the subject and endowed it with a sense of enchantment. The artist alternated thin passages of ink wash with bald areas of the paper support (the reserve) to create an effect of dappled light. In the dense grove of trees at upper right, Doomer articulated the light passing between the tree trunks like so many openings in a mesh screen.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
