# Mountainous Village Landscape \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VALCKENBORCH, Frederik van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on copper

## Commentary

The lower foreground of the painting is abuzz in activity with miners, builders, and water-mill attendants going about their daily duties. In the middle background rests a tavern, a fitting accompaniment to the laborious stations below.

## Related artworks

- [Landscape with a Shipwreck of Aeneas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/landscape-with-a-shipwreck-of-aeneas-r2530e654185f60>)
- [Mountain Landscape with Ruined Castle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/mountain-landscape-with-ruined-castle-r52b668c088c009>)
- [Mountainous Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/mountainous-landscape-r9db8b96c7c5412>)
- [Mountainous Village Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/mountainous-village-landscape-r8207db82fbe229>)
- [The Construction of the Tower of Babel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/the-construction-of-the-tower-of-babel-r9ac0b667e222d3>)
- [The Fire of Troy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/the-fire-of-troy-re2e38f8f2f8b5a>)
- [View of Landshut](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/view-of-landshut-ree27fcc01a404f>)
- [Wooded River Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/valckenborch-frederik-van-r33f7411b3a7fab/wooded-river-landscape-r50aa6467f8011f>)

## Attribution

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