Travelers by a Lake
1625
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 33.5 × 33.5 × 3.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-111676
Prior to the early 1600s, Dutch artists typically painted landscapes as idealized or artificial backdrops to decorate the more important religious or mythological narratives they included. A revolution in landscape painting occurred in Haarlem in the 1610s when artists like Esaias van de Velde started to paint the humble and everyday subjects of the land and people of the Netherlands in convincingly naturalistic detail. The river view was a subject that van de Velde developed in the 1620s. While the water is subordinate to the other elements, its stillness reinforces the serenity of the envir…
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1982.128
Registry history
- 1625 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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