Landscape with Travelers Attacked by a Gang of Robbers
Medium
engraving
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of 27 members of The Print Club of Cleveland's 1995 Low Countries Tour
Accession Number
1995.79
Tags
male
About this artwork
The subject of waylaid travelers was a popular motif for Netherlandish artists, especially around 1600. As a consequence of the war with Spain, displaced mercenaries and army deserters occasionally formed bands of robbers and victimized travelers and rural inhabitants. In this engraving after a drawing by David Vinckboons, a variety of incidents take place at the edge of a dark forest interior. As women and children flee their captured wagon, two bandits aim their guns at another traveler escapi...