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

ca. 1655 or after

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.

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Title: A Waterfall in Switzerland (near Lausanne?) with a Resting Wayfarer
Artist: Jan Hackaert (Dutch, Amsterdam 1628–1685 Amsterdam)
Date: ca. 1655 or after
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink; framing line in pen and brown ink, probably by the artist
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in. (20.1 × 15.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2014
Object Number: 2014.611
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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