Bohemian Landscape with Couples and Hunters

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Bohemian Landscape with Couples and Hunters

c. 1606

Attributed to Jacob Matham (Dutch, 1571–1631) After Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639)

Although panoramic landscapes seem commonplace today, at the turn of the seventeenth century an oversized landscape without a specific narrative subject was unusual. Roelandt Savery's dramatic composition looks back to the sixteenth-century Flemish tradition in which rocky outcroppings and mountainous scenery are contrasted with broad valleys leading off into vast distances. Secular details such as the lovers at lower left and the huntsmen at right look ahead to the type of landscape painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early seventeenth century.

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Object Details

Titles:

Bohemian Landscape with Couples and Hunters
Mountainous Landscape with a Pair of Lovers and a Sportsman

Date:

c. 1606

Artists:

Attributed to Jacob Matham (Dutch, 1571–1631) After Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639)

Medium:

Engraving printed from two plates

Dimensions:

Plate: 19 3/8 x 29 13/16 inches (49.2 x 75.7 cm) Sheet: 19 13/16 x 29 7/8inches (50.4 x 75.9cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-34389

Geography:

Made in Netherlands, Europe

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