Roelant Roghman Amsterdam 1627 - 1692

With the exception of the famous series of castle drawings, the great majority of Roghman's landscapes fall into one of two broad categories.  Some are rather delicate landscapes, drawn with a fine pen in very dark brown ink and worked up with grey wash, while others are dashing depictions of rugged scenery, very freely drawn in brown ink, usually with brown wash, works which apprently postdate the artist's trip to Italy in the mid-1650s. While closer overall to the former group, this drawing is something of a combination of both types: the landscape in the background is very delicately delineated, the wash is grey rather than brown, yet the foreground motifs of trees are powerfully drawn with rapid strokes of the pen.