Jan van GoyenDutch, 1596–1656Dorpsstraat
May one see it?
Unknown
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-T-1948-403
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
Meanwhile, in the life of Jan van Goyen
The whole lifebetween 1608 and 1615
His father sends him to Willem Gerritsz in Hoorn
According to Houbraken, Jan told his father that only oil painting gave him satisfaction, so his father sent him to Willem Gerritsz in Hoorn, with whom he worked for about two years “with diligence and application”.
1610–1615 · Workplace
Leiden
1615–1616
Travel: France
between 1615 and 1618
A year in Esaias van de Velde’s studio
Back from France, van Goyen spent a year in Haarlem in the studio of the landscape painter Esaias van de Velde, who became the key figure in his development. Alexandre Benois also noted the influence of Abraham Bloemaert’s prints and Hercules Segers’s landscapes on the young artist.
late 1620s
One of the creators of the “panoramic style”
In the late 1620s the “panoramic style” took shape in Dutch landscape painting; van Goyen, together with Salomon van Ruysdael and Pieter de Molijn, is regarded as its exponent and one of its creators. His compositions are marked by a low horizon, a high sky and taut diagonals of perspective.
27 April 1656
Died
