Landscape with Travelers Attacked by a Gang of Robbers

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Landscape with Travelers Attacked by a Gang of Robbers

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Date
1602
Medium
engraving
Culture
Netherlands, early 17th Century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
159286

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The subject of waylaid travelers was a popular motif for Netherlandish artists, especially around 1600. As a consequence of the war with Spain, displaced mercenaries and army deserters occasionally formed bands of robbers and victimized travelers and rural inhabitants. In this engraving after a drawing by David Vinckboons, a variety of incidents take place at the edge of a dark forest interior. As women and children flee their captured wagon, two bandits aim their guns at another traveler escaping on horseback. The ominous silhouette of a dead man hangs from a tree warning the viewer of possible perils encountered in the forest. Like Coninxloo, Flemish painter David Vinckboons left Antwerp after 1585 and settled in Amsterdam in 1586.

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Gift of 27 members of The Print Club of Cleveland's 1995 Low Countries Tour

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