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Landscape with Travelers
Herman van Swanevelt (Dutch, c. 1600–1655)
1630s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Framed: 98 x 119 x 9 cm (38 9/16 x 46 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 75 x 94.8 cm (29 1/2 x 37 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Holden Collection
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Swanevelt played an important role in the development of 17th-century landscape painting in Rome. Often regarded as a follower of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), with whom he briefly shared a home, most scholars now believe that the influence was mutual. Swanevelt's landscapes are distinguished by the use of Roman peasants, rather than the classical figures preferred by his contemporaries.
