Upright Italian Landscapes: Woman on a Mule

Jan Both (Dutch, c. 1618-1652)

n.d.

Medium
Etching on paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
26.5 × 20.5 cm (10 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Culture
Holland
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line
John H. Wrenn Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

About this work

Sons of a glass painter, Jan and Andries Both studied for a time with the Utrecht painter Abraham Bloemaert, and went to Rome after 1635. Whereas Andries specialized in peasant and lowlife scenes, Jan favored Italianate landscapes in the tradition of Claude Lorrain. When his brother drowned in a Venetian canal in 1641, Jan returned to Utrecht.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0