# Landscape with a Devotional Image

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VIOLA, Giovan Battista](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/viola-giovan-battista-r9fe0217b2e10af>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 47 x 59 cm

## Commentary

Viola&#39;s landscapes are almost indistinguishable from those by Domenichino. Viola&#39;s figures tend to be clumsier and his landscapes more rugged and wilder with mountains in the distance rendered in the deep blue often found in the backgrounds of Netherlandish paintings.

## Related artworks

- [Landscape with a River](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/viola-giovan-battista-r9fe0217b2e10af/landscape-with-a-river-rfa39bfce279fb3>)
- [Penitent Magdalen in a Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/viola-giovan-battista-r9fe0217b2e10af/penitent-magdalen-in-a-landscape-rbc0e89dca8e687>)

## Attribution

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