View of Nijmegen from the Northeast
Jan van Goyen·1644
Historical Context
View of Nijmegen from the Northeast from 1644 at the Milwaukee Art Museum offers another perspective of this ancient city. Van Goyen's multiple views of Nijmegen from different directions demonstrate his systematic approach to topographic landscape painting. Van Goyen's panoramic views exploit the extreme horizontality of the Dutch landscape, placing the horizon very low and devoting most of the canvas to sky. This compositional strategy, developed in the 1630s, became standard for subsequent...
Technical Analysis
The city and river are rendered in Van Goyen's characteristic restricted palette of warm browns and cool greys, the atmospheric effects creating convincing spatial depth.
