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Landscape with Ruins, Birds and Beasts
(Baroque Europe )
This is a typical pleasant, romanticized fantasy of ruins, birds, and deer that Hans Savery painted in Utrecht in response to the market for works by his uncle and mentor Roelandt Savery, to whom this painting was attributed before 1990.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1971-1972 | World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 11/1/1976 | Treatment | coated |
Geographies
Netherlands (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 20 5/16 x W: 28 1/16 in. (51.6 x 71.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1909