![Jan van Goyen - A Castle by a River [1647]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7584/16820744335_cb77cbf403_o.jpg)
Many of Van Goyen's pioneering river views of the 1630s employ the diagonal recession, the repoussoir of a boat in the foreground, and the tonal palette found in this large panel of 1647. Here, however, there is a greater emphasis on the sky, and on a restful balance of horizontal and vertical elements. A similar sense of grandeur was soon to appear in the work of younger landscape painters such as Jacob van Ruisdael.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on wood, 66 x 97.2 cm]