The Tiber River with the Ponte Molle at Sunset
Jan Asselijn
c. 1650
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 41.2 × 54 cm (16 1/4 × 21 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Florian Carr Fund, New Century Fund, and Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund
Accession Number
2012.129.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jan Asselijn · 1610–1652
Jan Asselijn (c. 1610–1652), born Jean Asselin in Dieppe, France, to a Huguenot family, emerged as a leading figure in Dutch Golden Age landscape painting. His family relocated to Amsterdam around 1621, where he began his artistic training. He received instruction from Esaias van de Velde, a pioneering realist landscapist, and later studied with Jan Martszen the Younger, Esaias's nephew, producing...