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Hunters Near Ruins

1648

Jan Baptist Weenix

(Dutch, 1621-1660)

Netherlands, 17th century

Oil on canvas

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.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.294

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not on view

Description

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower right: Gio. Batta. Weenix: 1648"

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.

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 287; Mentioned: p. 286

Centraal Museum (Utrecht, Netherlands). Nederlandse 17e eeuwse Italianiserende landschapschilders. 1965. Referenced: cat. no. 97, p. 177, Reproduced: pl. 100

Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings: Catalogue. Hartford: [publisher not identified], 1978. Mentioned: p. 202, Weenix n. 3

Schloss, Christine Skeeles. Travel, Trade, and Temptation: The Dutch Italianate Harbor Scene, 1640-1680. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1982. Reproduced: p. 89, plate 2

Duparc, Frederik J., and Linda L. Graif. Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montreal, ONT: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1990. Reproduced: p. 36, fig. 18

Wagenberg-ter Hoeven, Anke A. van, Father and Son Weenix. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2018. Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 16; Mentioned: pp. 94-95, cat. 13

Exhibition history

Dutch Italianate Landscapes Painters from the 17th Century. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (organizer) (March 9-May 30, 1965).

The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

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Hunters Near Ruins

Jan Baptist Weenix

Netherlands, 17th century

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