# Hunters Near Ruins

- By: Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621–1660)
- Date: 1648
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 123.5 x 154 x 11.5 cm (48 5/8 x 60 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 98.8 x 129.2 cm (38 7/8 x 50 7/8 in.)
- Culture: Netherlands
- Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.294)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1964.294/1964.294_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Weenix lived in Rome for five years and painted Italianate landscapes, rather than local, Dutch subjects. The bright light, classical architecture, and exotic-looking garb of the figures all speak to this interest in foreign landscape.