Landscape with a cart crossing a ford
Landscape with a cart crossing a ford

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Landscape with a cart crossing a ford,

ca. 1620

Schelte Adams Bolswert, Dutch, ca. 1581–1659
after Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640; born Siegen, Germany; died Antwerp, Belgium
x1935-1480
During his long career, Rubens produced around forty landscapes, inspired by the countryside near Het Steen, his estate in Brabant. Despite their intensely private character, these works became widely known and admired, particularly in Britain, through a series of reproductive engravings made under his supervision by his favorite printmaker, Schelte Adams Bolswert. While these works belong to the tradition of panoramic northern paintings, Rubens amplified atmospheric and optical effects, as seen in the poetic reflection of the full moon on the water in these nocturnal and twilight scenes.

Information

Title
Landscape with a cart crossing a ford
Dates

ca. 1620

Maker
Schelte Adams Bolswert
after Peter Paul Rubens
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet trimmed to plate: 33.6 × 44.9 cm (13 1/4 × 17 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan, Class of 1888 (?)
Object Number
x1935-1480
Place Made

Europe, Belgium, Antwerp

Inscription
Inscribed and signed in plate below image, lower left: Pet. Paul Rubbens [sic] / pinxit. / S.a Bolswert/ foul prixit. Four lines of Latin inscribed in plate below image, center: Ut semel incautus currum disrupit arator, […] Ad loca Iustitia, quo fuit ante, redit. Inscribed in plate below image, lower right: Gaspar Huberti / excudit Antuerpia.
Reference Numbers
Dutuit 5; Hollstein 309; Wijngaert 93
Culture
Dutch, European
Type
engravings, prints
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
engraving (printing process)
Subject
horses, landscapes (representations), figures (representations), men, rock (inorganic material), rivers, wagons

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