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Jan Jansz den Uyl

Village on a River

1620–25
black chalk, with transparent and opaque watercolor in blue, green-blue, gray, and ochre, framing line in brown ink on antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

In the 1620s, when this small drawing was made, sketching landscape scenes en plein air (on-site) was still relatively new in the Netherlands.

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