An Explosion near a Village
Dirk Langendijk Dutch
Not on view
As a specialist of battle scenes, Langendijk was a master of depicting tiny figures in motion—in this instance the flailing bodies of soldiers and horses propelled into the air by an explosion. With deft control of his pen and brush, the artist leaves parts of the paper untouched to read as the light emitted by the blast.
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