View of Emmerich (1645): Art, History and Details

View of Emmerich (1645) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596–1656).

The work and its context

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

Jan van Goyen’s deceptively simple paintings record remarkably realistic impressions of weather, space, and the shifting interactions of land, water, light, and air. He worked with swift, intuitive brushstrokes and a limited range of colors: gray, brown, cool blues, and earthy greens. The artist often went on sketching trips along the Rhine River, visiting cities such as Arnhem, or the German city of Emmerich, depicted here. In the foreground, a shallow boat ferries passengers and horse-drawn wagons across the river.

Object facts

• Title: View of Emmerich
• Date: 1645
• Creator attribution: Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596–1656)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 105.5 x 136 x 9.5 cm (41 9/16 x 53 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 65.4 x 96.7 cm (25 3/4 x 38 1/16 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1959.351

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” May 26, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• “Annual Report for the Year 1959.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 6 (June 1960): 111–158.
• Francis, Henry S. “View of Emmerich from across the Rhine.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 9 (November 1960): 215–218.

View the collection record

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