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The image depicts a rural landscape with a distant church spire and rolling hills. The detailed brushstrokes create textures and shading in black, white, and gray tones. A shepherd rests on a rock, surrounded by a flock of sheep. The scene includes fields, trees, and swirling cloud patterns in the sky.
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The image depicts a rural landscape with a distant church spire and rolling hills. The detailed brushstrokes create textures and shading in black, white, and gray tones. A shepherd rests on a rock, surrounded by a flock of sheep. The scene includes fields, trees, and swirling cloud patterns in the sky.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Landscape with a Village

Schelte Adams Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Date
c. 1638
Medium
engraving with etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 32.1 x 45.7 cm (12 5/8 x 18 in.) sheet: 33.3 x 47 cm (13 1/8 x 18 1/2 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2003.30.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Small Landscapes

Subjects and terms

  • etching
  • Landscape
  • Flemish
  • engraving
  • Tree
  • Sun
  • Sheep
  • Building
Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A.); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Inscription

lower left in plate: Pet. Paul Rubbens pinxit / S. à Bolswert Sculpsit; lower center in plate: Nobilissimo Amplissimo que Domino D. IONNI PHILIPPO HAPPART Urbis Antwerpiae Senatori D. D. C. Q. Aegidius Henrix; lower right in plate: Gillis Henderickx / excudit

NGA object ID 126514. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.