# Italian Landscape with Draughtsman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOTH, Jan]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 187 x 240 cm ## Commentary Italian Landscape with Draughtsman c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 187 x 240 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Jan Both was one of the best known of the Dutch painters living in Italy for varying length of time in the 17th century \(the so-called Italianates\). They painted landscapes without depicting a specific topography and almost all their works are imaginary compositions. Both's painting - although includes a draughtsman - is no exception. It shows a waterfall and a small gorge overgrown with bushes and trees close to a country road with a bridge which has just been crossed by a travelling party consisting of a carriage drawn by two horses led by grooms. By the side of the road are three groups of two figures each, all wearing rather rustic garbs.Judging by their poses and the sheet of paper held by one of them they are artists surveying the countryside. Opening up on the right is a broad view of the Roman campagna. Both painted the scene with remarkably light, bright colours, and exploited the effect of the sunlight to the full. ## Related artworks - [Italian Landscape with Draughtsman \(detail\)]() - [Italian Landscape with Roman Warriors]() - [Italian Landscape with Ruined Tower]() - [Italianate Rocky Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Peasant Woman on a Mule]() - [Ruins at the Sea]() - [Southern Landscape with a Ruin]() - [Susanna and the Elders]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()