Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Landscape |
Date | ca. 1607 |
Dimensions | 9.5 x 15.2 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Signature | BRUEGHEL |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Location | New York, NY, United States |
Collection | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Tags | Traveling, Animals, Horse, Forest, Burghers, Cart, Road |
External resources | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
This work does not appear in the 1979 Ertz catalogue nor the Honig Database.
The traditional scheme of browns, greens and blue, for fore-, middle- and background, achieves recession chromatically. Varying degrees of luminosity record a meteorological passage from the trailing darkness of a recent storm to the promise of pleasant weather.