Boat at a River Bank with Three Goatsprobably c. 1645/1656
Log-built houses and sheds cluster at the water’s edge, figures gather near one of the buildings and a boat is drawn up on the bank, with three goats nearby, as the title notes, and trees rising behind. More about this work
About this work
Log-built houses and sheds cluster at the water’s edge, figures gather near one of the buildings and a boat is drawn up on the bank, with three goats nearby, as the title notes, and trees rising behind. Timber buildings of this kind were a novelty to Dutch eyes, and Everdingen encountered them on his travels through Scandinavia in the 1640s. Back in the Netherlands he turned such motifs into a long run of small etchings, valued for their crisp linework and their sense of a remote, northern way of life.
Written by Ochre Editions.
What you’re looking at
The image shows a landscape with figures near a body of water. There are buildings made of logs, people gathered near a structure, and trees in the background. The style is detailed with precise linework, shading, and hatching. The color palette is monochrome, emphasizing light and shadow.
Description from the National Gallery of Art.
How it was made
- Etching
- The artist draws with a needle through a waxy coating on a copper plate, and acid bites the exposed lines. The plate is then inked, wiped and printed under pressure, so the line keeps the freedom of drawing.
Allart van Everdingen
Dutch, 1621–1675
Everdingen trained in Utrecht and Haarlem and in 1644 travelled to Scandinavia, where he sketched the mountains, forests and waterfalls of Norway and Sweden. Back in Haarlem and later in Amsterdam, he made these northern scenes his speciality, introducing the rushing waterfall into Dutch painting and influencing Jacob van Ruisdael. He was also a prolific etcher of landscapes and made a well-known series illustrating the fable of Reynard the Fox.
Written by Ochre Editions.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The National Gallery of Art has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1973.15.99
- Credit
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Type
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
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