A landscape with travelers, a ruined building and a fortified town
mid-17th–early 18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brown and blue-gray washes; framing line in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 9/16 in. (23.5 x 37 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.97.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Adriaen Fransz. Boudewijns’s *A Landscape with Travelers, a Ruined Building and a Fortified Town* captures the quiet poetry of the Flemish countryside during the late Baroque period. Created between the mid-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the drawing invites viewers to follow a winding path where small figures journey past crumbling stone ruins toward a distant walled settlement. The scene blends observed nature with gentle invention, a hallmark of the era’s landscape tradition that celebrated both the passage of time and the enduring beauty of the land. Executed in pen and brown ...