Currently not on view
Landscape with Coach at an Inn by a Riverbank,
1653
The innovative naturalism of Dutch seventeenth-century landscape painting is conveyed in this poetic drawing by Van Goyen, who could endow a bend in the river with atmospheric nuance and spirit of place. Using swift strokes of black chalk modeled with gray wash, he stages a continuum of space and the passage of time, in which fishermen cast their nets while travelers arrive or mill about at the small wayside inn, whose sagging roofs contrast with the slim church spire. Executed the year in which the artist produced more than 250 signed and dated drawings, the work was made in the studio and intended for sale. The scene probably was inspired by Van Goyen’s travels by sailboat in 1650–51, when he sketched his journey along the Rhine from Cleves
in the east to Valkenburg and Haarlem on the coast.
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1653
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2003," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 63 (2004): p. 101-141., p. 123
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 65 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 65
