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Mountain Landscape with Figures
Creator
Herman Saftleven the YoungerDutch Artist · 1609–1685
All works by this person →During his lifetime, Herman Saftleven was one of Holland's best-known artists. His father and his elder brother Cornelis probably trained him. His simple, austere style appears in an early series of landscape etchings from 1627. Around 1632, Saftleven made Utrecht his home. In the following year, he collaborated with Cornelis on paintings of rustic barn interiors, a subject that later became somet
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- 1648–1652
- Medium
- Black chalk and brown wash
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Between 1648 and 1652, Herman Saftleven the Younger concentrated on drawing imaginary mountain landscapes featuring large, prominent rock formations and distant views that dominate small figures. Although in this drawing he has created a natural-looking scene, many of his drawings are not topographical and he often used interchangeable motifs. These fantastic, vaguely Central European views reflect the influence of Roelandt Savery's rugged, fictitious mountain landscapes, such as Savery's *Landscape with Waterfall* , created about thirty years earlier than Saftleven's drawing. At a time when travel was difficult, landscape drawings and prints gave people both a means and an excuse to conjure up exotic, far-flung lands. More than 1,200 of Saftleven's topographical and imaginary landscape drawings survive, most of which are finished, large-scale drawings made for collectors.
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