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Jan Both

The Ox-Cart, from Upright Italian Landscapes

1638/52
Etching on paper
26.8 × 21 cm (10.6 × 8.3 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Sons of a glass painter, Jan and Andries Both studied for a time with the Utrecht painter Abraham Bloemaert, and went to Rome after 1635. Whereas Andries specialized in peasant and lowlife scenes, Jan favored Italianate landscapes in the tradition of Claude Lorrain. When his brother drowned in a Venetian canal in 1641, Jan returned to Utrecht.

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