Eight Bohemian Landscapes: Landscape with Log Bridge over Cataract (c. 1610–15): Art, History and Details

Eight Bohemian Landscapes: Landscape with Log Bridge over Cataract (c. 1610–15) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Aegidius Sadeler (Flemish, c. 1570–1629); Pieter II Stevens (Flemish, c. 1567–after 1624).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The dramatic forest interior, ornamental foliage, and diminutive figures in this engraving are all hallmarks of the imaginary landscape tradition brought by Flemish immigrants to the northern Netherlands at the turn of the 17th-century. Pieter Stevens (about 1567-after 1624), the designer of the print, worked in Antwerp until 1594, when he was named court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. While in Rudolf's employ, Aegidius Sadeler engraved a number of his drawings, such as this work. Enormous trees rise above a scene of peasants and mules who cross a manmade bridge to reach a distant mill. In the foreground corner, a group of figures stand along the rocky river bank while a man fires a flintlock across the river.

Object facts

• Title: Eight Bohemian Landscapes: Landscape with Log Bridge over Cataract
• Date: c. 1610–15
• Creator attribution: Aegidius Sadeler (Flemish, c. 1570–1629); Pieter II Stevens (Flemish, c. 1567–after 1624)
• Culture: Flanders
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1970.352

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Wixom for the fiftieth anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland

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