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Hunters Near Ruins

1648

Jan Baptist Weenix

(Dutch, 1621–1660)

Netherlands, 17th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 123.5 x 154 x 11.5 cm (48 5/8 x 60 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 98.8 x 129.2 cm (38 7/8 x 50 7/8 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.294

Location

not on view

Description

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower right: Gio. Batta. Weenix: 1648"

Provenance
Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, Paris (sale: Paillet, Paris, February 18-25, 1793, no. 102);
Marquis of Montcalm, Montpellier (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 25, 1850, no. 28);
Pierard collection, Paris (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 20-21, 1860, no. 95);
Bourlon de Sarty collection, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 9-11, 1868, no. 20);
(sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 2, 1883, no. 25);
[Galerie Heim, Paris];
Mr. and Mrs. Severance Millikin, Cleveland, 1964, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964.
Citations
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. 287; Mentioned: p. 286
Centraal Museum (Utrecht, Netherlands). Nederlandse 17e eeuwse Italianiserende landschapschilders. 1965. Referenced: cat. no. 97, p. 177, Reproduced: pl. 100
Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings: Catalogue. Hartford: [publisher not identified], 1978. Mentioned: p. 202, Weenix n. 3
Schloss, Christine Skeeles. Travel, Trade, and Temptation: The Dutch Italianate Harbor Scene, 1640-1680. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1982. Reproduced: p. 89, plate 2
Duparc, Frederik J., and Linda L. Graif. Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montreal, ONT: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1990. Reproduced: p. 36, fig. 18
Wagenberg-ter Hoeven, Anke A. van, Father and Son Weenix. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2018. Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 16; Mentioned: pp. 94-95, cat. 13
Exhibition history

Dutch Italianate Landscapes Painters from the 17th Century. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (organizer) (March 9-May 30, 1965).

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

The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

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