Artist Brueghel, Jan, the elder
     nationality Flemish
     birth-death 1568-1625
Creation date 1612
Materials oil on wood
Dimensions 15 x 24 in.
Location Netherlandish gallery
Credit line The Clowes Fund Collection
Accession number 2000.343

Wall Label

Jan Brueghel was the second son of the famous peasant painter, Pieter Brueghel the elder. The younger Brueghel was one of the pioneers of the river landscape in Netherlandish art. In this painting, he develops the related theme of river travel, as ferry boats full of passengers and animals approach a crowded landing near a small village.

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architecture, atomspheric perspective, blue sky, boats docking, bucolic, contrasting colors, directional line dreated by path and river, Dutch landscape, farm, foliage, if you do not look closely at the image it looks as if there is a snake coilded up along the shore, journey, people gathering, representational, return home, toil, trade, trade route, transportation, waterscape
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