# A Beach with Fishing Boats [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOYEN, Jan van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 28 x 43 cm ## Commentary A Beach with Fishing Boats c. 1653 Oil on wood, 28 x 43 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan van Goyen painted beach scenes many times during his career. Scenes like that depicted in the present painting could be witnessed almost every day near the coastal towns of seventeenth-century Holland. They were recorded by other Dutch painters, too. ## Related artworks - [A Beach with Fishing Boats \(detail\)]() - [A View on the Maas near Dordrecht]() - [An Estuary Scene]() - [Beach at Scheveningen]() - [Castle by a River]() - [Country House near the Water]() - [Dune Landscape]() - [Dunes]() - [Estuary Landscape]() - [Farmyard with Haystack]() - [Haarlemmer Meer]() - [Haymaking]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()