River Landscape with the Pellecussen Gate near Utrecht, 1648, Jan van Goyen, Dutch, 1596-1656, 25 1/4 x 37 in. ( x cm) (panel)25 7/8 x 38 1/4 in. ( x cm) (sight)36 1/16 x 48 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. ( x x cm) (outer frame), Oil on panel, Netherlands, 17th century, This river landscape illustrates the ambivalence of 17th-century Dutch realism, in which artists often depicted actual buildings and sites in otherwise imaginary compositions. The Pellecussen Gate shown here was a medieval tower guarding the towpath

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