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Landscape with Gypsies
Cornelis Hendricksz. Vroom (Dutch, about 1591–1661)
1624
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Framed: 91.4 × 55.9 cm (36 × 22 in.)
Overall: 78.7 × 43.2 cm (31 × 17 in.)
Overall: 78.7 × 43.2 cm (31 × 17 in.)
Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection—Museum acquisition with funds donated by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession Number2020.398
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Cornelis Vroom played a key role in the development of early landscape painting in Haarlem. In this idyllic scene he applied various devices to create a sense of depth: the bending path, the combination of towering trees with a distant vista, and bands of light and dark. The expansiveness of the view is emphasized by the depiction of diminutive figures – notice the group of travelers in the foreground – and the panel’s oblong format.
InscriptionsSigned and dated on rock at center CVroom 1624
ProvenancePaul Sédille (b. 1836 – d. 1900), Paris; probably by descent within the family. February 29, 2012, anonymous sale, Kahn-Dumousset, Paris, lot 86, probably to Bob Haboldt (dealer), Paris, New York, and Amsterdam; 2013, sold by Haboldt to George S. Abrams, Newton, MA; 2020, sold by George S. Abrams to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2020)