Rocky Stream

ca. 1620–30

Not on view

Previously confused with Karel Dujardin, Guilliam du Gardijn is now understood as an important practitioner of Italianate landscape drawings in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. This lyrical, atmospheric sheet was likely made in or around Rome, where the artist is believed to have traveled in the 1620s or 1630s. Working with a half-dry brush, the artist skillfully conjured the molten forms of the overgrown rocks and the gentle luminosity of the sun filtering through the trees and reflecting on the water. Inscribed on the lower edge of the recto, in dark brown ink, is a price: 30 St [stuivers]. Similar inscriptions appear on several drawings by Du Gardijn, though whether they record the prices of the drawings at hand is not certain.

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Title: Rocky Stream
Artist: Guilliam du Gardijn (Dutch, Cologne ca. 1595/96–after 1647 Amsterdam (?))
Date: ca. 1620–30
Medium: Pen, ink, and gray wash over graphite or black chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 in. × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2024
Object Number: 2024.433
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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View of the Ponte San Rocco at Tivoli; verso: Buildings on the River Aniene near Tivoli (?), Guilliam du Gardijn Dutch, Brush and gray ink, black chalk — View of the Ponte San Rocco at Tivoli; verso: Buildings on the River Aniene near Tivoli (?)
Guilliam du Gardijn
Karel Dujardin
ca. 1640–45 (?)

View of a Bridge and Waterfalls in Tivoli (recto); View of a Waterfall in Tivoli From Within a Cave (verso), Guilliam du Gardijn Dutch, Black chalk, brush and brown and gray ink — View of a Bridge and Waterfalls in Tivoli (recto); View of a Waterfall in Tivoli From Within a Cave (verso)
Guilliam du Gardijn
Karel Dujardin
ca. 1640–45 (?)

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage, Adriaen van Ostade Dutch, Pen and brown ink, watercolor, white heightening, over traces of graphite; framing lines by the artist (?) in pen and brown ink and gold — Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage
Adriaen van Ostade
1673

Dune Landscape with Oak Tree, Jacob van Ruisdael Dutch, Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink — Dune Landscape with Oak Tree
Jacob van Ruisdael
1650–55

Cottage among Trees, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown — Cottage among Trees
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
ca. 1650

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