A Romanesque Ruin
Jan van Goyen
1650–1651
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 9.8 × 15.8 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk stickswashprints and drawinginorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
Five drawings (1961.378-1961.382) were once bound in a small sketchbook of approximately 200 pages. Because it was light and portable, Jan van Goyen could tuck it into his pocket while walking in search of inspiration. Sketchbooks allowed the artist to quickly delineate sand dunes and architectural structures in the vicinity of his residence in The Hague and farther afield. These landscape sketches in black chalk and ink wash relate—directly and indirectly—to compositions the artist later realized in oil paintings.
