Warm light coming from the left illuminates four men standing in pairs on either side of a dirt road that winds between rocky, tree-studded hills and a misty river in this almost square landscape painting. The trees have tall, gnarled, brown trunks with high canopies of sage, olive, and forest green while others have golden yellow leaves. The road curves in a C-shape along the foot of the hills that rise up the right side of the composition, their craggy faces painted in warm tones of sand, fawn, and caramel brown. Closest to us is rocky terrain covered with scrubby plants and two…
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An Italianate Evening Landscape

painter Jan Both (Dutch, 1615/1618 - 1652)

c. 1650

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 138.5 x 172.7 cm (54 1/2 x 68 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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