The Ox-Cart, from Upright Italian Landscapes
Jan Both (Dutch, c. 1618-1652)
1638/52
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 26.8 × 21 cm (10 9/16 × 8 5/16 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. 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
