2-977-616 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Italian Landscape with a Draughtsman, c.1650-1652. An artist has found a place to sketch by a wood, near a waterfall - perhaps it is Both himself. Travellers with heavy-laden mules are walking towards a plain bathed in Italian sun. Both was clearly fascinated by the Mediterranean light and stayed in Rome for a long time. Back in the Netherlands, he continued to paint Italianate landscapes in the warm glow of the sun.