River Landscape with Blacksmith at Work outside a Village, 1653, Jan van Goyen, Dutch, 1596-1656, 6 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. ( × cm) (sheet)10 3/4 × 15 1/4 in. ( × cm) (mount), Black chalk, grey wash and traces of pen and brown ink, Netherlands, 17th century, As a young man, Jan van Goyen filled numerous sketchbooks with black chalk studies made outdoors in the Dutch countryside. Such extensive practice gave him extraordinary fluency as a draftsman. He was also an astute observer of everyday life, and here he brings alive the varied activity of a small but lively community—trade

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