Travelers by a Lake
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
diam. 17.7 cm · framed: 33.5 × 33.5 × 3.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1982.128
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Prior to the early 1600s, Dutch artists typically painted landscapes as idealized or artificial backdrops to decorate the more important religious or mythological narratives they included. A revolution in landscape painting occurred in Haarlem in the 1610s when artists like Esaias van de Velde started to paint the humble and everyday subjects of the land and people of the Netherlands in convincingly naturalistic detail. The river view was a subject that van de Velde developed in the 1620s. While...