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A Rocky Landscape with an Ox-cart

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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A shaft of light from the low sun seems to point the way forward for the ox cart between the craggy cliffs. Long-haired goats chew on the brittle leaves of scrubby plants, but there’s lush greenery on the distant hillside above the lake. The cart is laden with household goods resting on straw, suggesting either that the driver is moving house or, more likely, that he’s a travelling trader.

During Jan Both’s three-year stay in Rome he befriended Claude, the great French landscape painter. Claude’s style influenced the young Both, which can be seen in this picture: a gold evening or early morning light, deep shadow in the foreground and a misty distance, hidden castles and towers, and slender birch trees with a fine tracery of leaves against the sky.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

A Rocky Landscape with an Ox-cart

Date

about 1640-5

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 120.5 x W 160.5 cm

Accession number

NG1917

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Lord Cheylesmore, 1902

Work type

Painting

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