Artwork
Landscape with a Hunter
Landscape with a Hunter is an oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Monogrammist IVS. It dates from 1646 and is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
Landscape with a Hunter by the Monogrammist IVS is a 1646 oil-on-panel landscape produced in Antwerp.
Landscape with a Hunter by the Monogrammist IVS is a 1646 oil-on-panel landscape produced in Antwerp. The documented iconographic content is limited: the painting is recorded as depicting a tree within a broader landscape setting, with a hunter named in the title. The genre classification as a landscape painting situates the work within the seventeenth-century Flemish tradition of combining naturalistic scenery with small staffage figures, where the hunter would function as a narrative accent rather than the central subject.
The tree, as the only specifically identified motif, likely anchors the composition as a structural and atmospheric element typical of Antwerp landscape production of the period.
Because the surviving documentation does not specify further symbolic attributes, allegorical references, or interpretive themes associated with the hunter or the surrounding scenery, the meaning of the work can only be described in these general genre terms rather than through any particular iconographic program.
Technique & Style
Landscape with a Hunter is a landscape painting executed in oil paint on a wooden panel. The artwork measures 42.5 by 72 centimeters. Stylistically, the composition belongs to the landscape genre and features a tree as a prominent depicted element.
History & Provenance
Landscape with a Hunter is an oil painting on panel created in Antwerp in 1646 by the Monogrammist IVS. The work entered the collection of Julius Böhler AG before being acquired by the Rijksmuseum, where it remains on display. Its dimensions are 42.5 cm in height and 72 cm in width, and it is classified as a landscape painting.
Overview
Landscape with a Hunter, executed in oil on canvas in 1646, presents a tranquil woodland tableau. Central to the composition is a gnarled tree, its bark rendered with palpable texture, while a solitary figure in a broad-brimmed hat kneels beside a fallen log, guiding a lone sheep. Distant trees, a meandering stream, and faint silhouettes of walkers complete the scene, all rendered in muted greens, browns, and grays.
Artist & collection
Artist
This artist painted oil landscapes in the 1600s, leaving us only one signed work from 1646.
