View of an Italian Port

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, early 1660s

A man and woman on horseback are on a strip of land also occupied by livestock, dogs, and seven other people in front of a body of water and towering cliff in this horizontal landscape painting. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem ¹
Date: early 1660s ¹
Medium: oil on canvas ¹
Original: 23,541 × 18,765 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Object record, National Gallery of Art

Historical context appears here only once it has verified sources. An empty record is better than a wrong one.

Computed from the image

neutral temperaturehigh contrastmid toneslandscape

Measured from pixels, not historical readings.

Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

A work made of watercolor, with rewetting and blotting, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper.

Water laps at a curving shoreline in front of a steep sandy dune carpeted in grass, shrubs, and trees in this horizontal landscape painting. The dune takes up the lower right quadrant of the composition.

In contrast

Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

Related

In contrast