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A Wooded Landscape with Travellers by the Roadside, a Stream beyond
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A Wooded Landscape with Travellers by the Roadside, a Stream beyond

Herman van Swanevelt

17th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, framing line in black ink

Tags

LandscapesTrees

Dimensions

sheet: 6 7/16 x 10 11/16 in. (16.4 x 27.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, and Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2003

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Herman van Swanevelt

1590–1665 • Spanish Netherlands

Herman van Swanevelt was in Paris in 1623 and lived in Rome from 1629 to 1638. He studied under Claude Lorraine and took the name Eremita. In 1646 he was again in Paris, in 1649 in Woerden and in 1652 in Paris, where he became a member of the academy of fine arts the following year. Comment on works: Landscapes.

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