# Landscape with Stone Carriers [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUBENS, Peter Paul]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 86 x 127 cm ## Commentary Landscape with Stone Carriers c. 1620 Oil on canvas, 86 x 127 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg This painting belongs to the early landscapes of the artist. Rubens generally painted his landscapes for himself. That explains not only the lack of his pupils' involvement and a biblical or mythological basis in such works but also their experimental nature. Here Rubens depicts a moonlit night and a day, with the central foreground scene brightly lit by some third source. Along with the terrain heaving in different directions, resisting the haulers' efforts and the dissonant chorus of trees, this imbues the painting with a physical sense of transformation. ## Related artworks - [A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Albert and Nicolaas Rubens]() - [Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()