1648
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Hunters Near Ruins is a 1648 unspecified by Jan Baptist Weenix, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows hunters walking past crumbling Roman arches in warm Italian light. Their dogs look tired while the background glows with sunset colors. Weenix painted this after living in Rome for five years. He loved Italian scenery so much he skipped Dutch landscapes completely. The buildings look real but feel dreamy, like a postcard from the past. Next time you're in Cleveland, look for this painting at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
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.
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Jan Baptist Weenix, also spelled Jan Baptiste Weeninx (1621–1659), was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
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