The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Landscape with Travelers

1605

Jan Brueghel

(Flemish, 1568–1625)

Flanders, early 17th Century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and blue watercolor over stylus

Support: Beige (1) laid paper

Sheet: 19.9 x 31 cm (7 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Delia E. Holden Fund 1960.27

Location

not on view

Description

A son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan traveled in Italy in the 1590s and later enjoyed a successful career in Antwerp, where he eventually became court painter to the Habsburg regents. As a painter, he specialized in floral still lifes and landscapes, sometimes collaborating with his friend Peter Paul Rubens. His drawings, however, are almost exclusively landscapes. Bruegel intended them to be sold as independent works, rather than as preparatory studies for paintings. The date indicated in the lower left corner of this sheet may be correct, but, along with the artist's name it seems to have been added by a later hand.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed [falsley ?], lower left, in brown ink: Brueghel .1605. ; lower right, in black ink: 12 ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: No / 40 ; lower left, in brown ink: Daer Abraham / met syn volck de lantsyen en nemen [?]

Provenance
according to Cailleux: bought in 1953 from M. Robert, Nice; [Cailleux, Paris]
Exhibition history

CMA, 1996: "Landscape in Detail," September 10-Novemer 3, 1996, no catalogue

Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-June 6, 1967).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 25, 1981-January 3, 1982).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

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