# Landscape with Ruins

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## Artwork

- Artist: [POTTER, Pieter Symonsz.](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/potter-pieter-symonsz-r4968f796365251>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on panel, 40 x 40 cm

## Commentary

Pieter Potter, the father of the animal painter Paulus Potter, was specialized in landscapes, genre scenes, and still-lifes. His son may have been inspired by the cattle he painted. The painting is signed and dated at lower left: P. Potter f. 1636.

## Related artworks

- [A Barn Interior](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/potter-pieter-symonsz-r4968f796365251/a-barn-interior-r69e1dfac406f4d>)
- [Guardroom Interior](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/potter-pieter-symonsz-r4968f796365251/guardroom-interior-r254f5a1d675a62>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)