Les Petits Paysages, 5

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Les Petits Paysages, 5

c. 1638

Schelte Adams Bolswert (Flemish, 1586–1659) After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish (active Italy, Antwerp, and England), 1577–1640)

Day and night are simultaneously portrayed to remarkable effect in this engraving after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. The moon rises in the sky at right, while the sun is still setting behind the distant hills at left.

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Object Details

Titles:

Les Petits Paysages, 5
Landscape with a Cart Crossing a Ford, Plate 5 from the series of twenty Petits Paysages de Rubens

Date:

c. 1638

Artists:

Schelte Adams Bolswert (Flemish, 1586–1659) After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish (active Italy, Antwerp, and England), 1577–1640)

Medium:

Engraving

Dimensions:

Sheet: 12 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (31.8 x 44.5 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-531

Geography:

Made in Netherlands, Europe

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