In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
The tradition of landscape as an independent subject in Italian art stretches back to the 1500s and was flourishing in the 1600s, when Guercino made this drawing. Guercino, however, rarely painted pure landscape, preferring to explore this genre in the more intimate medium of drawing. This sheet, with its fluid pen lines and unified composition enlivened by small figures, is a typical example of his ability to integrate picturesque motifs into an asymmetrical, balanced whole.
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Franz Kobell (German, 1749–1822) — Landscape
Anonymous — Landscape
Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673) — Figures on a Winding Ro
Giovanni Battista Busiri — River Landscape near Narni
Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607–1674) — Trees before a Village
Gillis Neyts — Landscape with old trees and figures
Herman Saftleven (Dutch, 1609–1685) — Landscape with the Vil
Friedrich Preller (German, 1804–1878) — La Serpentara near O
Imitator of Domenico Campagnola|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) — 
Anthony van Dyck — A Group a Trees
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) — Landscape with Building on
Franz Kobell — Rocky Landscape with a Lake
