A Rocky Landscape with Peasants and Pack Mules

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Age has not been kind to this lyrical evocation of the Roman Campagna (the countryside around the Italian city) and parts of it are now obscured. In the centre, a group of peasants -- the picture's focus -- are at the turn of a path. One man pushes his laden mule up the slope towards us. A girl mounted on a mule is about to follow him. Another man heaves at a mule, whip in hand.Jan Both was a Dutch artist who lived for a while in Rome, making sketches and drawings that he kept for his return home. There, his landscapes were painted in the studio and, with the low soft light that pervades them, they seem to radiate a memory of the warmth of Italy.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

A Rocky Landscape with Peasants and Pack Mules

Date

about 1645

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 119.5 x W 160 cm

Accession number

NG71

Acquisition method

Presented by Sir George Beaumont, 1823/8

Work type

Painting

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