Rocky Stream
Guilliam du Gardijn Dutch
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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