A Waterfall in Switzerland (near Lausanne?) with a Resting Wayfarer

Jan Hackaert Dutch

Not on view

This view of a waterfall is one of numerous drawings Hackaert produced during, or just after, his travels in Switzerland between 1653 and 1656. (An inscription, probably added in the eighteenth century, locates the scene near Lausanne.) Short vertical strokes describe the cascading water. Two figures—one seated in the foreground and another climbing the hill above—provide a sense of scale. Hackaert may well have produced the drawing for a collector. Other examples of Hackaert’s Swiss views were acquired by Laurens van der Hem (1621-1678) and incorporated into the collector's extraordinary atlas preserved in the Österreichhische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna.

A Waterfall in Switzerland (near Lausanne?) with a Resting Wayfarer, Jan Hackaert (Dutch, Amsterdam 1628–1685 Amsterdam), Pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink; framing line in pen and brown ink, probably by the artist

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