View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer
Jan van Goyen
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer, painted in 1646 by the Dutch master Jan van Goyen, exemplifies the tonal landscape tradition that made van Goyen one of the most prolific and influential painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Rendered in a restrained palette of silvery grays and soft ochres, the composition depicts the distant silhouette of Haarlem's skyline across the broad expanse of the Haarlemmer Meer, a lake that once dominated the surrounding countryside before its eventual drainage in the nineteenth century.
Van Goyen's rapid, fluid brushwork and his mastery of atmospheric perspective convey the vast, low-lying character of the Dutch landscape with remarkable economy of means, subordinating architectural and topographical detail to an overwhelming sense of sky and light. His innovative near-monochrome technique proved enormously influential, helping to establish landscape as an independent and commercially vibrant genre within Dutch Golden Age painting.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Jan van Goyen |
| Year | 1646 |
| Medium | Oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 13 5/8 x 19 7/8 in. (34.6 x 50.5 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
