id: 140344 accession number: 1964.294 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.294 updated: 2023-08-23 21:54:15.699000 Hunters Near Ruins, 1648. Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621–1660). Oil on canvas; framed: 123.5 x 154 x 11.5 cm (48 5/8 x 60 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 98.8 x 129.2 cm (38 7/8 x 50 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.294 title: Hunters Near Ruins title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1648 creation date earliest: 1648 creation date latest: 1648 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621–1660) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 123.5 x 154 x 11.5 cm (48 5/8 x 60 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 98.8 x 129.2 cm (38 7/8 x 50 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: Gio. Batta. Weenix: 1648" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Dutch Italianate Landscapes Painters from the 17th Century opening date: 1965-03-09T05:00:00 Dutch Italianate Landscapes Painters from the 17th Century. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (organizer) (March 9-May 30, 1965). title: Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age opening date: 1990-06-08T04:00:00 Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (organizer) (June 8-July 22, 1990). title: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00 The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, Paris (sale: Paillet, Paris, February 18-25, 1793, no. 102); date: footnotes: citations: Marquis of Montcalm, Montpellier (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 25, 1850, no. 28); date: footnotes: citations: Pierard collection, Paris (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 20-21, 1860, no. 95); date: footnotes: citations: Bourlon de Sarty collection, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 9-11, 1868, no. 20); date: footnotes: citations: (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 2, 1883, no. 25); date: footnotes: citations: [Galerie Heim, Paris]; date: footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Severance Millikin, Cleveland, 1964, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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. wall description: Unlike the other painters whose work appears along this wall, 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 287; Mentioned: p. 286 url: Centraal Museum (Utrecht, Netherlands). Nederlandse 17e eeuwse Italianiserende landschapschilders. 1965. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 97, p. 177, Reproduced: pl. 100 url: Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings: Catalogue. Hartford: [publisher not identified], 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 202, Weenix n. 3 url: Schloss, Christine Skeeles. Travel, Trade, and Temptation: The Dutch Italianate Harbor Scene, 1640-1680. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 89, plate 2 url: Duparc, Frederik J., and Linda L. Graif. Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montreal, ONT: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1990. page number: Reproduced: p. 36, fig. 18 url: Wagenberg-ter Hoeven, Anke A. van, Father and Son Weenix. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 16; Mentioned: pp. 94-95, cat. 13 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.294/1964.294_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.294/1964.294_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.294/1964.294_full.tif