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Painted almost entirely in tones of beige and golden brown, we look across a smooth body of water at a row of buildings around a large church and several windmills scattered across the skyline in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon comes about a quarter of the way up the painting, and the ice-blue sky above is nearly filled with pink-tinged clouds. Closest to us, a man bends over a container or bundle on a narrow spit of land in the lower left corner. Three boats float close by in the water beyond him. A rowboat at the lower center of the painting is filled with at least ten…
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View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil

Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596 - 1656)

1644

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 64.7 x 95.9 cm (25 1/2 x 37 3/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
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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