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Coastal Landscape with Saint Christopher
Also titled Kustlandschap met Sint-Christoffel
Matthys Cock (Antwerp, 1509–voor)
c. 1540
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 151 mm x width 235 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
According to Karel van Mander, who wrote a short biography of Matthijs and Hieronymus Cock, Matthijs was ‘the first to begin making landscapes in a better manner.’ What he probably meant by this was that Matthijs Cock depicted his landscapes with a consistent perspective and from a high vantage point. Matthijs’ younger brother Hieronymus made a print of the drawing.
