id:			140344
accession number:	1964.294
share license status:	CC0
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updated:		2025-10-16 11:09:26.977000

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
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creation date:			1648
creation date earliest:		1648
creation date latest:		1648
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621–1660)  - artist

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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.)
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	inscription:	Signed lower right: Gio. Batta. Weenix: 1648"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Dutch Italianate Landscapes Painters from the 17th Century
	opening date:   1965-03-09T05:00:00
	<i>Dutch Italianate Landscapes Painters from the 17th Century</i>. 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
	<i>Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age</i>. 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
	<i>The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, Paris (sale: Paillet, Paris, February 18-25, 1793, no. 102);
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	Marquis of Montcalm, Montpellier (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 25, 1850, no. 28);
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	Pierard collection, Paris (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 20-21, 1860, no. 95);
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	Bourlon de Sarty collection, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 9-11, 1868, no. 20);
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	(sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 2, 1883, no. 25);
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	[Galerie Heim, Paris];
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	Mr. and Mrs. Severance Millikin, Cleveland, 1964, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 287; Mentioned: p. 286
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	Centraal Museum (Utrecht, Netherlands). <em>Nederlandse 17e eeuwse Italianiserende landschapschilders</em>. 1965.
	page number: 	Referenced: cat. no. 97, p. 177, Reproduced: pl. 100
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	Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. <em>Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings: Catalogue.</em> Hartford: [publisher not identified], 1978.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 202, Weenix n. 3
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	Schloss, Christine Skeeles. <em>Travel, Trade, and Temptation: The Dutch Italianate Harbor Scene, 1640-1680</em>. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 89, plate 2
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	Duparc, Frederik J., and Linda L. Graif. <em>Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age</em>. Montreal, ONT: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1990.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 36, fig. 18
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	E. H. T. “The Year in Review: Selections 1989.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 2 (February 1990): 38–78.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 41
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160106

	Wagenberg-ter Hoeven, Anke A. van, <em>Father and Son Weenix</em>. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2018.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 16; Mentioned: pp. 94-95, cat. 13
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