Landscape with Ruins and Two Cows at the Waterside, from a series of four horizontal Roman Landscapes
Jan Both (Dutch, c. 1618-1652)
1645/50
- Medium
- Etching on ivory paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20 × 27.3 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 20.3 × 27.7 cm (8 × 10 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Jan Both was one of the principal Dutch painters of idyllic Italian views. This print, one of a series of four horizontal Roman landscapes, is in the artist's mature style and was probably executed in Utrecht after his return from Italy in 1641. The variety of linear treatment and the deeper etching of the foreground reveal Both's efforts to capture the effects of Italy's golden light.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
