# Goat on a small Bridge

**Allart van Everdingen** (Dutch, 1621–1675)  
probably c. 1645/1656  
etching with engraving

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1973.15.98. [The museum's record](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.53694.html).

## About this work

Allart van Everdingen made this (probably c. 1645/1656), aged about 24. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

### What you’re looking at

The image shows a landscape with rocky terrain, trees, and a stream. In the foreground, there is a bridge with a traveler and a dog crossing over the stream. The scene features detailed linework and cross-hatching to depict texture. The color palette is monochrome brown, resembling an etching or drawing style.

_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.
- **Engraving.** Lines cut directly into a metal plate with a steel burin, which makes them swell and taper. It took years to master, and for centuries it was how paintings travelled as pictures.

### [Allart van Everdingen](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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._

## Facts

- Type: Print
- The artist was about 24
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: figure, Bridge, Tree, Water, animal
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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