Jan van Goyen
Customs Post with Wing-Gate and Bell
About this artwork
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artist:Jan van GoyenDutch (1596 - 1656)
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title:Customs Post with Wing-Gate and Bell
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date created:1653
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materials:Black chalk and grey wash on paper
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measurements:16.20 x 26.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1098
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Jan van Goyen
Jan van Goyen
Jan van Goyen was one of the most important and prolific seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painters. His early style reflected that of his teacher, the landscape painter Esaias van de Velde. Both artists shied away from narrative detail in their paintings, and instead focused on the effects of...
