Italian Landscape with Travelers

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1650

Jan Both (Dutch, c. 1618–1652)

Jan Both here offered an inroad to the verdant Roman countryside. The path, populated with rustic figures and livestock, winds through rolling hills toward a serene harbor below. Hazy yellow light, perhaps that of the sunrise, glows atop distant periwinkle mountains.

Both spent several years in Rome with a group of Dutch and Flemish artists called the Bentvueghels (a Dutch term for “birds of a feather”). On his return to Utrecht, he helped pioneer the “Italianate” landscape, presenting the fantasy of a golden-lit, arcadian countryside to a population more familiar with the flat, boggy Netherlands and its cooler light and climate.

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jan Both
Title: Italian Landscape with Travelers
Place: Holland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1645–1655
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: JBoth (initials in monogram)
Dimensions: 49.5 × 61 cm (19 1/2 × 24 in.); Framed: 69.2 × 81 × 5.4 cm (27 1/4 × 31 7/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Alexander A. McKay and Annie Swan Coburn funds, purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis
Reference Number: 1987.67
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J. P. Neale, View of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, vol. 6, London, 1823, [p. 74].
The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1986-1987, Chicago, 1987, pp. 40-41, ill., 56.

Probably William Beckford, Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire [according to the 1815 manuscript catalogue of the pictures at Langley Park, Norfolk, cited below]. Sir Thomas Beauchamp-Proctor (died 1827), Langley Park, Norfolk, by 1815 [no. 8 in the 1815 manuscript catalogue of the pictures at Langley Park, Norfolk, a photocopy kindly supplied by Sir Christopher Proctor-Beauchamp is in the curatorial file]; by descent to Sir Christopher Proctor-Beauchamp. Douwes Fine Art Ltd, London and Amsterdam, by 1984 [included in their catalogue, 1984, no. 8]; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.

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