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Forest Scene with Hunters
Roelandt (Roelant) Jacobsz. Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639)
about 1615
Medium/Technique
Oil on Panel
Dimensions
52 x 85.4 cm (20 1/2 x 33 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund
Accession Number1988.14
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Savery traveled in 1603 to Prague, where he worked for Emperor Rudolf II. Probably painted after the artist returned to Amsterdam, this magical landscape draws on Savery's memories of the mountainous scenery of the Tyrol, Rudolf's menagerie of birds and animals, and castles that he passed on his way along the Rhine. Combining delicate foreground detail with an atmospheric background, this evocative fantasy differs markedly from the more straightforward and naturalistic landscapes that would soon dominate seventeenth-century Dutch painting.
InscriptionsPEB
ProvenanceUntil 1910, Countess André Mniszech, Wisniowiec, Poland (today Vishnevets, Ukraine); May 9-10, 1910, Mniszech sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 88, to Margossian; November 21-22, 1935, Margossian sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 19. 1937, Mestrallet, the Netherlands (?); February, 1937, sold by Mestrallet to Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam (stock no. 2319); February, 1937, sold by de Boer to Theo Niemeijer, Laren, the Netherlands; 1988, sold by Theo Niemeijer to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 24, 1988)