Hunters Near Ruins

Cleveland Museum of Art

Hunters Near Ruins

Jan Baptist Weenix

Date
1648
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
Netherlands
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Weenix lived in Rome for five years and painted Italianate landscapes, rather than local, Dutch subjects. The bright light, classical architecture, and exotic-looking garb of the figures all speak to this interest in foreign landscape.

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