The Ruin of Huis 't Sant at Katwijk aan Zee (1647): Art, History and Details

The Ruin of Huis 't Sant at Katwijk aan Zee (1647) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Roelant Roghman (Dutch, 1627–1692).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Ruin of Huis 't Sant at Katwijk aan Zee by Dutch artist Roelant Roghman is one of more than 200 drawings the artist made featuring castles, manor houses, and fortresses during a tour around the Netherlands. The artist traveled on foot to capture the present state of the buildings after a long and protracted war with Spain. He used large sheets of paper and combined ink wash and charcoal, capturing the buildings on the spot and then embellishing each with landscape elements.

Object facts

• Title: The Ruin of Huis 't Sant at Katwijk aan Zee
• Date: 1647
• Creator attribution: Roelant Roghman (Dutch, 1627–1692)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Black chalk and gray wash, with some oiled charcoal, on cream laid paper
• Dimensions: Image and Sheet: 34.5 x 50.6 cm (13 9/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - Dutch
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2020.142

A detail from the museum

In the 1640s, the artist Roelant Roghman spent two years traveling by foot and drawing manor houses, fortresses, and civic buildings throughout the Netherlands.

Collection credit

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift

Further reading listed by the museum

• Peters, Emily. "Dutch Drawings." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 26-31, 38-41. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.

View the collection record

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