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A Wooded Landscape with Travellers by a Stream, a Town Beyond
Creator
Pieter StevensFlemish Artist · 1567–1624
All works by this person →Landscape painter and draftsman Pieter Stevens may have trained in Antwerp, for he was a free master there in 1589. Early drawings depicting ancient monuments in Rome and Naples were probably copies of works by Jan Brueghel the Elder, rather than proof that Stevens went to Italy. In 1594 Stevens was appointed court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague, where he may have known Roelandt Savery. Th
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- 1597
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and red and blue wash
- Culture
- Flemish
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Dwarfed by the trees and stumps, woodcutters emerge from a thick forest in the Bohemian countryside around Prague. Pieter Stevens's art was heavily influenced by his many years in Bohemia as court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II of Prague. Well aware of Gillis van Coninxloo's imaginary, close-up forest scenes, Stevens creatively used a similar composition to depict a realistic setting. The steeply pitched roofs and towers of the picturesque city appeared often in Stevens' work; though not definitively identified, they resemble those of Prague. Characteristically, Stevens enlivened this scene with reddish wash highlights in the trees and blue wash in the sky. His flexible pen strokes and broad areas of wash lend the view an atmospheric quality.
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