Boating Party on a River

1651

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk with pale washes (reddish brown in the sky, greenish gray in the water, green and gray in the trees, red in the figure in the boat).
Dimensions: 7 13/16 x 11 15/16 in. (19.9 x 30.4 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.1.775
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0License details

Jan van Goyen. Boating Party on a River. Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access, CC0. Full-frame resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Boating Party on a River — Jan van Goyen. 1651.

Medium: Black chalk with pale washes (reddish brown in the sky, greenish gray in the water, green and gray in the trees, red in the figure in the boat).. Dimensions: 7 13/16 x 11 15/16 in. (19.9 x 30.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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