Arcadian Landscape
Arcadian Landscape

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Arcadian Landscape,

17th century

Unknown artist
2018-247
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Duane Wilder collected a number of landscapes, like this one, that can be loosely defined as Arcadian. The term refers to Arcadia, a region of ancient Greece that was believed to be the realm of the god of the forest, Pan, and his court of nature spirits. This mythology inspired the Roman poet Virgil to write his <em>Eclogues</em>, a series of pastoral poems set in Arcadia. In Western literature and visual art, the word came to refer to idyllic scenes of nature like this poetic vista.

Information

Title
Arcadian Landscape
Dates

17th century

Maker
Unknown artist
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 71.1 × 94 cm (28 × 37 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Duane E. Wilder, Class of 1951
Object Number
2018-247
Period
Romanist
Type
paintings

Dudley Leavitt Pickman; 1939 bequest to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession number 39.729, as "Landscape" by Gaspar Poussin) [1]. Deaccessioned at an unknown date. Duane E. Wilder; 2018 bequest to Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes

[1] Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, "Acquisitions, June 9, through December 14, 1939", vol. 38, no. 225 (Feb., 1940), pp. 19-22.

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