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Landscape with Travelers

1630s

Herman van Swanevelt

(Dutch, c. 1600–1655)

Netherlands, 17th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 98 x 119 x 9 cm (38 9/16 x 46 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 75 x 94.8 cm (29 1/2 x 37 5/16 in.)

Holden Collection 1916.823

Location

not on view

Description

Swanevelt played an important role in the development of 17th-century landscape painting in Rome. Often regarded as a follower of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), with whom he briefly shared a home, most scholars now believe that the influence was mutual. Swanevelt's landscapes are distinguished by the use of Roman peasants, rather than the classical figures preferred by his contemporaries.

Provenance
James Jackson Jarves (Florence, Italy, and New York, New York), by 1872, sold to Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1884;
Mrs. Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), 1884, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
Citations
Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. Mentioned: p. 40, cat. no. 45 archive.org
G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. Mentioned: p. 21 www.jstor.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Reproduced: p. 27 archive.org
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. 276; Mentioned: p. 277
Exhibition history

Boston, 1883-84: American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts, and Manufactures: Art Department "Jarves Collection" no. 413. As Claude.

Cleveland, 1894: "Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition," no. 1. As Claude.

CMA, 1916: "The Inaugural Exhibition of CMA,"no. 45. As Claude.

CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of CMA," no. 217. As Claude.

University of Michigan Museum of Art, April 15-May 24, 1964: "Italy through Dutch Eyes," no. 55, pl. III.

CMA, 1973: "Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century."

Montreal, Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 8-July 22, 1990: "Souvenir d'Italie,"

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962).

Italy Through Dutch Eyes. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 15-May 24, 1964).

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

Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (organizer) (June 8-July 22, 1990).

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