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Landscape with Travelers
About the Artwork
Swanevelt played an important role in the development of 17th-century landscape painting in Rome. Often regarded as a follower of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), with whom he briefly shared a home, most scholars now believe that the influence was mutual. Swanevelt's landscapes are distinguished by the use of Roman peasants, rather than the classical figures preferred by his contemporaries.
Exhibition history
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962). Italy Through Dutch Eyes. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 15-May 24, 1964). Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (organizer) (June 8-July 22, 1990).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Herman van Swanevelt (Dutch, c. 1600–1655)
- Date
- 1630s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 98 x 119 x 9 cm (38 9/16 x 46 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 75 x 94.8 cm (29 1/2 x 37 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Holden Collection
- Accession no.
- 1916.823
Provenance
James Jackson Jarves (Florence, Italy, and New York, New York), by 1872, sold to Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1884; Mrs. Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), 1884, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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Herman van Swanevelt17th century · Drawing
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009699
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