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Alpine Landscape with Travelers near a Village,
1603–04

Roelandt Savery, 1576–1639; born Courtrai, Belgium; died Utrecht, Netherlands

2011-164

Perhaps best known for his paintings of animals, including the now-extinct dodo bird, Savery was also a key figure in the history of northern landscape painting. While Savery was serving in the Hapsburg court in Prague, Rudolf II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, sent the artist to the Tyrolean Alps to capture in drawing the “rare wonders” of nature, material for his paintings. The resulting red and black chalk drawings are thought to have been done from life.

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Title

Alpine Landscape with Travelers near a Village

Dates

1603–04

Maker

Roelandt Savery

Medium

Pen and brown ink, grey, blue, brown, and rose washes, over red chalk

Dimensions

25.3 x 40.2 cm (9 15/16 x 15 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund, and Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund

Object Number

2011-164

Place Depicted

Europe, Alps

Signatures

Signed, lower center: R.S.

Marks/Labels/Seals

Watermark: [castle] N

Culture

Flemish

Type

drawings, watercolors

Materials

wash, ink, red chalk, laid paper

Subject

churches, villages, bridges (built works), rivers, mountains, dogs, travelers, trees, steeples, figures (representations), landscapes (representations), roads, buildings, crosses (objects)

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2011," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 71/72 (2012-13): p. 75-132., p. 101 (illus.)

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Roelandt Savery (1576–1639; born Courtrai, Belgium; died Utrecht, Netherlands), Alpine Landscape with Travelers near a Village, 1603–04. Pen and brown ink, grey, blue, brown, and rose washes, over red chalk; 25.3 x 40.2 cm. Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund, and Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund (2011-164) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/61125

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