ASSELYN, Jan
(b. ca. 1610, Dieppe, d. 1652, Amsterdam)

Italianate Landscape with a River and an Arched Bridge

c. 1648
Oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim

Jan Asselyn was Jan Both's exact contemporary, but he had a much wider repertoire than Both. He made his mark with exquisite Italianate landscapes bathed in a luminous light in which large-scale ruins often play a dominant role.




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