More than two dozen rowboats and sailboats bustle around a waterway in this horizontal landscape painting. Beige-colored water gently ripples across the bottom of the composition and extends into the deep distance, where buildings, windmills, and a church line the low horizon. Clouds with warm white tops and cool gray bottoms tower across a pale blue sky, which takes up the top three-quarters of the composition. A few reeds poke out of the water close to us, near the lower right corner of the painting. The row- and sailboats just beyond are packed with people. Two flags fly from the masts of…
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View of Dordrecht from the North

painter Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596 - 1656)

early 1650s

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 63.1 × 87.2 cm (24 13/16 × 34 5/16 in.) ; framed: 92.7 × 116.2 × 12.7 cm (36 1/2 × 45 3/4 × 5 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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