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Landscape with a Mounted Herdsman and Cows, a City in the Background
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Landscape with a Mounted Herdsman and Cows, a City in the Background

Jan Both

17th century

Medium

Brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk.

Tags

CitiesMenCowsLandscapesTrees

Dimensions

11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in. (28.2 x 20.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jan Both

1615–1652 • Dutch Republic

Brother of Andries Both, he was one of the foremost painters among the second generation of Dutch Italianates. While working in Italy he specialized in genre scenes; however, on his return to the Netherlands he concentrated on detailed, wooded landscapes bathed in a golden light. Comment on works: Genre; Landscapes; Views.

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