Landscape with Hunters (c. 1660–80): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Hunters (c. 1660–80) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jan Wijnants (Dutch, 1635–1684).

The work and its context

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

Dune landscapes were a subject of great interest in seventeenth-century Netherlands, among the earliest subjects for independent landscape. They were the bread-and-butter speciality for Wijnants, whose far more unusual Amsterdam canal scene is also in the collection of the CMA.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Hunters
• Date: c. 1660–80
• Creator attribution: Jan Wijnants (Dutch, 1635–1684)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 53 x 58 x 5.8 cm (20 7/8 x 22 13/16 x 2 5/16 in.); Unframed: 36.8 x 44.1 cm (14 1/2 x 17 3/8 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2011.48

A detail from the museum

To supplement his income as a painter, Jan Wijnants also owned an inn.

Collection credit

Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.

Further reading listed by the museum

• Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters; In Which Is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Description of Their Principal Pictures; a Statement of the Prices at Which Such Pictures Have Been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England; a Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in Which a Large Portion Are at Present; and the Names of the Artists by Whom They Have Been Engraved; to Which Is Added, a Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the Above Schools. London: Smith and Son, 1829.
• Hofstede de Groot, C. Beschreibendes und kritisches verzeichnis der werke des hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts; nach dem muster. Esslingen a. N.: P. Neff, 1907.

View the collection record

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