Search the collections

Videos ()
Under the Roman Sun: Landscape, Brigands, and the Late Grand Tour

Close

<p>Please enable flash to view this media. <a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/">Download the flash player.</a></p>

Please enable flash to view this media. Download the flash player.

Art Object
Program Information

Under the Roman Sun: Landscape, Brigands, and the Late Grand Tour

Program information

Roberta J. M. Olson, Curator of Drawings at the New–York Historical Society explores the relationship between the Grand Tour—a rite of passage for predominately wealthy young men—and the development of plein-air landscape painting.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850, on view January 22–April 21, 2013.

Recorded February 10, 2013

Related Content

The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes

The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes

Landscape with a Battle between Two Rams

Landscape with a Battle between Two Rams

The Yard of the Inn at Emmaus

The Yard of the Inn at Emmaus

Infant Bacchanal

Infant Bacchanal

The Triumph of Bacchus

The Triumph of Bacchus

Browse current and upcoming exhibitions and events.

Exhibitions:

Events:

Events:

Family Group in a Landscape

Jacques d'Arthois  (Flemish, 1613–ca. 1686)

Artist:
and Flemish Painter, ca. 1645
Date:
ca. 1645
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
49 1/8 x 60 1/8 in. (124.8 x 152.7 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Accession Number:
30.95.241

This artwork is not on display

  • Catalogue Entry

    Forthcoming

  • Provenance

    [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, until 1894; sold to Davis on May 18, 1894]; Theodore M. Davis, Newport, R.I. (1894–d. 1915; his estate, on loan to the MMA, 1915–30)

  • Exhibition History

    Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Five Centuries of European Painting," May 16–October 26, 1963, unnumbered cat. (p. 23).

  • References

    Millia Davenport. The Book of Costume. New York, 1948, vol. 2, p. 618, no. 1644, ill. p. 619 (cropped).

    Hans Vlieghe. Letter to Walter Liedtke. April 24, 1981, dismisses Van Oost as the figure painter.

    Walter A. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 1–2; vol. 2, pl. 1, suggests a date of about 1645 on the basis of the costumes.

    Introduction by Walter A. Liedtke in Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 316, no. 103, ill.



  • Notes

    Before this painting came to the MMA it was attributed to Aelbert Cuyp.

  • See also
    Who
    What
    Where
    When
    In the Museum
    Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
    MetPublications
110000021

Close