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Six Landscapes: Path Between Swamp and Wooded Bank

c. 1595

Jacob Savery I

(Dutch, 1566–1603)
Culture
Netherlands, 16th century
Medium
etching
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1988.153
Catalogue raisonné
Hollstein XXIII.207.13
State
II/IV
Public Domain
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Location
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Print

Description

One of a series of six wooded landscapes, this print characterizes some of the most significant developments in 17th-century Dutch landscape and provides a striking contrast to the dramatic forest interiors of other Flemish immigrant artists. As etching superseded engraving in landscape prints, original compositions designed by printmakers replaced reproductions of works by contemporary painters. Savery's etching also anticipates the rise of Dutch realism, with more accurate representations of the native landscape. The broken contours of the trees describe a sun-drenched afternoon as soldiers, identified by their distinctive hats and armored chest plates, journey along a path through the rolling countryside.
A horizontally oriented monochromatic etching depicts a landscape with a cluster of dense, rounded trees on a high bank jutting out from the right. Five figures wearing hats and carrying walking sticks navigate a path winding through the center. To the left, a waterway is thick with hatched reeds. In the background, a church tower rises above distant foliage under a sky textured with fine horizontal lines and soaring birds.

Six Landscapes: Path Between Swamp and Wooded Bank

c. 1595

Jacob Savery I

(Dutch, 1566–1603)
Netherlands, 16th century

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