Extensive Landscape With Travellers on a Country Road
- Artist
- Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish, 1568–1625
- Date
- c.1608–10
- Material
- Oil on copper
- made in
- Antwerp, Antwerpen province, Belgium, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 238
- Dimensions
- 13 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (33.6 x 46.4 cm)
- Credit Line
- Friends Endowment Fund, Museum Shop Fund, and funds given by Christian B. Peper in memory of Ethel Peper, Museum Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Crancer Jr., The Labarque Charitable Trust, Malcolm W. Martin, The Martha Love Symington Foundation, The John Peters MacCarthy Irrevocable Trust, Mrs. Elmer G. Kiefer, Mr. Fred M. Saigh, the McMillan-Avery Fund of the Saint Louis Community Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Burke in memory of William Guy Heckman, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Saligman, Marlyn Adderton, W. B. McMillan Jr., and the Henry L. and Natalie Edison Freund Charitable Trust
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- Object Number
- 84:1996
NOTES
From an elevated viewpoint we see the city of Antwerp at the distant right, a covered wagon in the middle distance, and a marshy stream in the right foreground. The scene is filled with fauna and flora, all finished in the painstaking detail for which Jan Brueghel the Elder is known. The road at left draws us into the painting, while bands of varying greens open up the distant landscape to suggest expansive space. Travelers journey on the left while hunters stalk herons in the marshy grasses at the right. The standing dog on the lower left appears to have a second head, indicating that the artist changed its position.