Standing Woman
early 17th-mid 17th century
Jan van Goyen usually spent his time painting moody rivers and cloudy skies, so this sketch of a standing woman is a fun detour into his sketchbook. Dressed in the puffy sleeves and bonnet of the 17th-century Dutch middle class, she looks like she's patiently waiting for a bus that won't arrive for another 300 years. The loose, energetic strokes show the artist working fast, likely capturing a passerby to use as a reference for a larger painting later. It’s a wonderful, unpolished snapshot of everyday life from the Baroque era.
- Technique
- black chalk
- Material
- paper
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