Mountainous River Landscape with Travelers

Mountainous River Landscape with Travelers
Artist	Tobias Verhaecht
Year	Early 17th century
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	51.4 cm × 67.9 cm (20.2 in × 26.7 in)
Location	Private collection, Unknown

Mountainous River Landscape with Travelers is an early-17th-century oil painting on panel by Flemish painter Tobias Verhaecht.^[1] The painting was sold to an unknown buyer at Sotheby's in New York City, on January 26, 2016.^[1]

Painting

The panoramic mountainous landscape "punctuated by rocky outcrops" is typical of Verhaecht. His painting adhered to the Weltlandschaft tradition started by Joachim Patinir and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This was characterized by imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint, mountains and lowlands, water, and often buildings. Characteristic of Weltlandschaft were also attention to detail and staffage figures dwarfed by their fantastical surroundings. In his youth, Verhaecht reportedly traveled to Italy, where Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany became his patron in Florence. He then moved on to Rome where he painted landscape frescos.^[2] He returned to Antwerp by 1590. This oil on panel was realized upon Verhaecht's return to Antwerp.^[1]

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Tobias Verhaecht

Paintings

• St John the Evangelist at Patmos
• Landscape with Venus and Adonis
• Mountain landscape with Tobias and the Angel
• Mountain Landscape with the Separation of Abraham and Lot
• Alpine Landscape
• Mountain Landscape
• Landscape with Moses
• Mountainous River Landscape with Travelers
• The punishment of Niobe
• The Tower of Babel
• Tower of Babel, KMSKA
• The Tower of Babel (Norwich Castle Museum)

Drawings

• Road between Cliffs
• Landscape with Christ and his Disciples at Emmaus
• Landscape with Couple Setting out Falconing
• Mountainous Landscape with Travelers on a Road