Zuylen Castle Near Utrecht
1646
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
Artist
Roelant Roghman
Roelant Roghman was a Dutch Golden Age painter, sketcher and engraver.
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Zuylen Castle Near Utrecht is a 1646 by Roelant Roghman, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a tall brick castle rising from a grassy hill, trees leaning in the wind, and a few tiny figures walking the path below. Roghman drew this on the spot during a walking tour of the Netherlands after years of war. He filled over 200 sheets with castles like this one, showing what was left standing. The ink and charcoal give the walls a soft, smoky look. If you like these quiet, on-the-spot drawings, look up the subject of Netherlands.
Zuijlen Castle Near Utrecht by Dutch artist Roelant Roghman is one of more than 200 drawings the artist made featuring castles, manor houses, and fortresses during a tour around the Netherlands. The artist traveled on foot to capture the present state of the buildings after a long and protracted war with Spain. He used large sheets of paper and combined ink wash and charcoal, capturing the buildings on the spot and then embellishing each with landscape elements.
In the 1640s, the artist Roelant Roghman spent two years traveling by foot and drawing manor houses, fortresses, and civic buildings throughout the Netherlands.
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Roelant Roghman was a Dutch Golden Age painter, sketcher and engraver.
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