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Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground

Nicolaes Berchem, the ElderLinkedCulture matchlcp-696a61feae35

Date: c. 1670
Medium: Black chalk, with brush and black wash, on cream laid paper
Culture: Netherlands
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 97689

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Nicolaes Bechem went to Italy in 1642 and remained there for three years; he may have returned in the 1650s. Most of his painted works are Italianate landscapes peopled with travelers and animals. Like Jan Both, Berchem was influenced by the work of Claude Lorrain.

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Credit line: Worcester Sketch Fund
Provenance: Edouard Cichorius (1819–1907), Dresden, 1908 [correspondence with Robert Light and inscription, verso, lower right]. Oscar Huldschinsky (1846–1931), Berlin; sold, Paul Graupe, Berlin, Nov. 3, 1931, lot 14. Dr. Edward Traudtscholdt [Light correspondence]. C. G. Boerner [Light correspondence]. Sold by Robert M. Light, Boston, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.