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Hunters Near Ruins
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: Gio. Batta. Weenix: 1648"
Provenance
Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, Paris (sale: Paillet, Paris, February 18-25, 1793, no. 102); Marquis of Montcalm, Montpellier (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 25, 1850, no. 28); Pierard collection, Paris (sale: Laneuville, Paris, March 20-21, 1860, no. 95); Bourlon de Sarty collection, Paris (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 9-11, 1868, no. 20); (sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 2, 1883, no. 25); [Galerie Heim, Paris]; Mr. and Mrs. Severance Millikin, Cleveland, 1964, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964.
Exhibition history
Dutch Italianate Landscapes Painters from the 17th Century. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (organizer) (March 9-May 30, 1965). Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (organizer) (June 8-July 22, 1990). The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621–1660)
- Date
- 1648
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Accession no.
- 1964.294
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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