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Muleteers beside an Italian Ruin
Also titled Ezeldrijvers bij een Italiaanse ruïne
Jan Asselijn (Dieppe, 1610–1652)
c. 1650
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 67 cm x width 82 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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
Asselijn had spent time in Rome, where he recorded his impressions in drawings. Once back in Amsterdam, he painted this view of a huge aqueduct. This monument to the faded glory of ancient Rome now shelters simple country folk and their herds. In the sunlight beneath one arch, a traveller is relieving himself, just like the urinating donkey in the foreground that partially conceals him.
