# Resting at a Tavern

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GOYEN, Jan van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on oak panel, 59 x 87 cm

## Commentary

This large panel is one of the new type of landscapes that Van Goyen created between 1628 and 1630. Unlike his early landscapes of around 1625 with their many anecdotal details and varying compositions, these later landscapes are characterized by a unifying diagonal composition and a tonal unity consisting of a limited range of colours - ochre, green, grey and brown. In the present panel the main motifs are grouped along a diagonal leading from the right foreground to the horizon on the left.

## Related artworks

- [A Beach with Fishing Boats \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/a-beach-with-fishing-boats-detail-r3d823ffeaf4299>)
- [A Beach with Fishing Boats](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/a-beach-with-fishing-boats-rf63f806e2f3e61>)
- [A View on the Maas near Dordrecht](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/a-view-on-the-maas-near-dordrecht-r4ca75481df45a0>)
- [An Estuary Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/an-estuary-scene-reb8cd745be0c37>)
- [Beach at Scheveningen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/beach-at-scheveningen-r58ecbb4abd3348>)
- [Castle by a River](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/castle-by-a-river-rcf75fea787d6f2>)
- [Country House near the Water](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/country-house-near-the-water-rbd6bc2f0e8689d>)
- [Dune Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/dune-landscape-r90c4090cd99250>)
- [Dunes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/dunes-r34c3a8e4852a3b>)
- [Estuary Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/estuary-landscape-r291f7271a5aeb3>)
- [Farmyard with Haystack](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/farmyard-with-haystack-r7d3e689dc5c929>)
- [Haarlemmer Meer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/goyen-jan-van-r7f4cae54c220f3/haarlemmer-meer-r7b70358e2f8146>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)