# Mountain Valley with Inn and Castle \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [STEVENS, Pieter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on oak

## Commentary

The omnipresence of staffage figures in the landscape paintings of the late 16th and the 17th centuries makes it clear that landscape was understood as the space in which people live their lives.

## Related artworks

- [Landscape and Pond](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/landscape-and-pond-r5545a1e883be97>)
- [Landscape with a Footbridge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/landscape-with-a-footbridge-r7b294c49bfac18>)
- [Landscape with Ruins](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/landscape-with-ruins-rff3c72c9d8229f>)
- [Mountain Valley with Inn and Castle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/mountain-valley-with-inn-and-castle-r51cc3d7ba8a493>)
- [Temptation of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/temptation-of-christ-r36a699c98d6a54>)
- [Waterfall](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/waterfall-r71c2e3b560310d>)
- [Weir](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/stevens-pieter-rc7b4917a9a6453/weir-r5506aaff1861c3>)

## Attribution

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