An Explosion near a Village

Dirk Langendijk Dutch

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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.

An Explosion near a Village, Dirk Langendijk (Dutch, Rotterdam 1748–1805 Rotterdam), Pen and brown and black ink, brush and gray ink; framing line in pen and brown ink

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