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Landscape with Hunters

Jan Wijnants

1670

unspecified

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

Baroque Dutch Golden Age Baroque Landscape

Dominant colour

Landscape with Hunters is a 1670 unspecified by Jan Wijnants, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Who painted this?: Jan Wijnants
When & what style?: 1670 · Baroque
Where can I see it?: Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

You see a sandy hill dotted with scrubby bushes, a few hunters in red coats, and a pale sky with thin clouds. Wijnants painted these dunes over and over—they were his go-to scene. But here, the light feels almost too bright, like sun on a windy day. The hunters look small, almost lost in the landscape. If you like this quiet, sunlit feel, look up Dutch Golden Age next.

The story of this work

Overview

Dune landscapes were a subject of great interest in seventeenth-century Netherlands, among the earliest subjects for independent landscape. They were the bread-and-butter speciality for Wijnants, whose far more unusual Amsterdam canal scene is also in the collection of the CMA.