Landscape with a traveler

Jan Both's entourage
Dutch School of XVIIth century
Landscape with a traveler
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, framing line in pen and brown ink
259 x 333 mm
Watermark – coat of arms with fleur-de-lys decoration, 4WR (close to CH-MJV-FWC 140 listed in Bernstein, The Memory of Paper)

Framed drawing, frame dimensions: 38 x 46 cm.
Framed with a pretty Berain style gold baguette.

A native of Utrecht, Jan Both (1615 – 1652) introduced the style of Claude Lorrain to the Dutch landscape. His Italianate style was later developed by artists such as Nicolaes Berchem and Aelbert Cuyp. The British Museum holds a drawing by Jan Both that is stylistically close to the present drawing (see inv. no. Gg.2.268 – Landscape with a Shepherd and his Flock, pen and brown ink, brown wash, 252 x 352 mm).