Travelers in a Forest

Provenance

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Artist: Herman Saftleven II (Dutch, Rotterdam 1609–1685 Utrecht)
Date: 1647
Medium: Black chalk, brush and black and brown wash, heightened with white; framing lines in brush and black wash on three sides
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 9 3/16 in. (28.5 × 23.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
Accession no.: 2019.276.11

View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654
Herman Saftleven II
17th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00021472
River Landscape with Mountains
Herman Saftleven II
17th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00021473
Fantasy Rhine Landscape
Herman Saftleven II
1650 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00021973
Study of a red catchfly (Lychnis hirsuta)
Herman Saftleven II
1680 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022659

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.