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Hunters Near Ruins
Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621-1660)1648
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Hunters Near Ruins
- Creator: Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621-1660)
- Date Created: 1648
- Physical 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.)
- Provenance: Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, Paris (sale: Paillet, Paris, February 18-25, 1793, no. 102);, Marquis of Montcalm, Montpellier (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 25, 1850, no. 28);, Pierard collection, Paris (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 20-21, 1860, no. 95);, Bourlon de Sarty collection, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 9-11, 1868, no. 20);, (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 2, 1883, no. 25);, [Galerie Heim, Paris];, Mr. and Mrs. Severance Millikin, Cleveland, 1964, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.294
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower right: Gio. Batta. Weenix: 1648"
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Netherlands, 17th century
- Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
- Accession Number: 1964.294
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