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A Woodland Road with Travelers
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A Woodland Road with Travelers

Dimensions

18 1/8 x 32 3/4 in. (46 x 83.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Pfeiffer, Dodge, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1974

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Jan Brueghel the Elder

1568–1625Habsburg Netherlands

He was the son of Pieter Bruegel. He is famous for small-scale history paintings, flower still-lifes, allegorical and mythological scenes, and landscapes, including imaginary mountain landscapes, forest interiors, villages and country roads, ports, river views, seascapes, hunting scenes, battles and depictions of Hell and the underworld. Died suddenly in a cholera epidemic in Antwerp; his son, Jan the younger, took over the studio.