1646
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Zuylen Castle, near Utrecht (recto)/Ruin of the huis Ter Kleef, near Haarlem (verso) is a 1646 by Roelant Roghman, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a tall, crumbling castle perched on a hill, its walls half-covered in ivy, with a few bare trees around it. Roghman walked hundreds of miles to draw these ruins just after a long war. He didn’t fix them up—he showed them exactly as they were, cracks and all. That makes the picture feel honest, like a quick photo from 1646. If you like quiet, real places, look up other drawings of netherlands castles.
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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