Hunters Near Ruins (1648): Art, History and Details

Hunters Near Ruins (1648) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621–1660).

The work and its context

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

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.

Object facts

• Title: Hunters Near Ruins
• Date: 1648
• Creator attribution: Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621–1660)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 123.5 x 154 x 11.5 cm (48 5/8 x 60 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 98.8 x 129.2 cm (38 7/8 x 50 7/8 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1964.294

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
• Centraal Museum (Utrecht, Netherlands). Nederlandse 17e eeuwse Italianiserende landschapschilders. 1965.
• Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings: Catalogue. Hartford: [publisher not identified], 1978.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.