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Landscape with Travelers
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape with Travelers, 1630s. Herman van Swanevelt (Dutch, c. 1600–1655). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection, 1916.823
