Herman Saftleven

View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654

17th century

Dating

Within this century

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

Dimensions

sheet: 9 13/16 x 29 1/2 in. (24.9 x 74.9 cm)

Collection no.

1995.197

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Herman Saftleven. View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654. Herman Saftleven; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, by exchange, and The Mnuchin Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey and Werner H. Kramarsky Gifts, 1995. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.