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Follow the path from the dog and the travelers back past the tall trees to the hilltop castle and the hazy blue mountains.
During his years in Rome, Jan Both belonged to the Bentvueghels, a club of Dutch and Flemish painters whose name means “birds of a feather.” Back in Utrecht he helped create the Italianate landscape, offering people used to flat, wet land and cool light a golden vision of the Roman countryside. Here travelers and their animals wind down a path through the hills toward the water.
Oil on canvas · 49.5 × 61 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- Italian Landscape with Travelers
- Artist
- Jan Both (Dutch, c. 1618–1652)
- Date
- c. 1650
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.5 × 61 cm (19 1/2 × 24 in.); Framed: 69.2 × 81 × 5.4 cm (27 1/4 × 31 7/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Alexander A. McKay and Annie Swan Coburn funds, purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.