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Jan Baptist Weenix

Hunters Near Ruins

1648
oil on canvas
98.8 × 129.2 cm (38.9 × 50.9 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Weenix lived in Rome for five years and painted Italianate landscapes, rather than local, Dutch subjects. The bright light, classical architecture, and exotic-looking garb of the figures all speak to this interest in foreign landscape.

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