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Preview image of work. etching on cream laid paper, Landscape with Pigs and Two Pedlars (Plate 4) 18923

2009.16.744

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Landscape with Pigs and Two Pedlars (Plate 4)

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Artist

Jan van de Velde II (ca. 1593 - 1641, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands)

Title

Landscape with Pigs and Two Pedlars (Plate 4)

Creation Date

1616

Century

early 17th century

Dimensions

6 7/8 in. x 9 3/8 in. (17.46 cm x 23.81 cm)

Object Type

Creation Place

Europe, Netherlands

Medium and Support

etching on cream laid paper

Credit Line

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Gift of Charles Pendexter

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

2009.16.744

A Dutch engraver and painter, Jan van de Velde II depicted landscapes, animals, and still lifes. This charming etching of two peddlers strolling past a farmhouse is from his series of landscapes of Holland’s Haarlem countryside. It exhibits an eye for incidental detail and appreciation for journeying along the region’s scenic roads, qualities that were typical of Dutch artists. Itinerant peddling emerged in Europe when new trade routes opened during the fifteenth century and flourished during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whether poor peasants obliged by circumstance to strap baskets to their backs or professional merchants seeking new markets, peddlers brought novelty and occasionally luxury to rural customers. Two hundred years after this print was made, Porter traveled more modern circuits painting portraits and making professional connections.