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| A Woodland Road with Travelers |
Artist:Jan Brueghel the Elder (Netherlandish, Brussels 1568–1625 Antwerp)
Date:1607
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:18 1/8 x 32 3/4 in. (46 x 83.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Pfeiffer, Dodge, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1974
Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, advanced the genre of northern landscape painting beyond his father’s legacy. In this refined, well-preserved panel, the vast depth of the landscape is balanced by an attention to the humanity of the peasant subjects and their humble tasks in the foreground. The juxtaposition of the living and the dead—the lush woods with a fallen dead tree, and the living horses with a horse’s skeleton—reflects the mortality of all living things that results in their eventual return to the earth.
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