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Boats on Shore and in Water
Creator
Jan de BisschopDutch Artist · 1628–1671
All works by this person →Despite his amateur status, Jan de Bisschop was widely influential in art and art publishing. A lawyer by profession, he set up practice in The Hague around 1652 and later founded a drawing academy there. He mingled with an elite circle of intellectuals that included his friend and fellow amateur draftsman Constantijn Huygens the Younger. Bartholomeus Breenbergh, who lived in de Bisschop's native
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- 1648–1652
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and wash; brown ink framing lines
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Jan de Bisschop made atmospheric landscape studies like this one on sketching trips throughout the Netherlands. Here he depicts a small fishing boat called a *weyschuit* with its rigging articulated in fine, filigree pen lines. The *weyschuit* rests on shore near a cluster of rowboats and a large, flat-bottomed vessel. The artist's copious use of blank paper invites viewers to imaginatively fill in the remaining scene.
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