Italian Landscape with Ferry
Also titled Italiaans landschap met overzetveer
Jan Both (Utrecht, 1618–1652)
c. 1650 - 1652
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 7.2 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Herders and an elegant couple are about to take a ferryboat. They have no choice, because – as the lady on the grey horse points out – the stone bridge in the distance has collapsed. By including the ferry, Both introduced a narrative element to the landscape. The scene is bathed in a golden evening glow, and the valleys are cloaked in a bluish haze.
