Landscape with Travelers (1630s): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Travelers (1630s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Herman van Swanevelt (Dutch, c. 1600–1655).

The work and its context

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

Swanevelt played an important role in the development of 17th-century landscape painting in Rome. Often regarded as a follower of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), with whom he briefly shared a home, most scholars now believe that the influence was mutual. Swanevelt's landscapes are distinguished by the use of Roman peasants, rather than the classical figures preferred by his contemporaries.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Travelers
• Date: 1630s
• Creator attribution: Herman van Swanevelt (Dutch, c. 1600–1655)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 98 x 119 x 9 cm (38 9/16 x 46 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 75 x 94.8 cm (29 1/2 x 37 5/16 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1916.823

Collection credit

Holden Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
• G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.

View the collection record

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