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Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground
Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1621/22-1683)
c. 1670
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and black wash, on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 25.3 × 30.7 cm (10 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch 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
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About this work
Nicolaes Bechem went to Italy in 1642 and remained there for three years; he may have returned in the 1650s. Most of his painted works are Italianate landscapes peopled with travelers and animals. Like Jan Both, Berchem was influenced by the work of Claude Lorrain.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
