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Landscape with Ruins and Two Cows at the Waterside, from a series of four horizontal Roman Landscapes
1645/50
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching on ivory paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20 × 27.3 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 20.3 × 27.7 cm (8 × 10 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1960.838
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jan Both. Landscape with Ruins and Two Cows at the Waterside, from a series of four horizontal Roman Landscapes, 1645/50. Inventory 1960.838. Jan Both; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12578. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Existing creator authority Q981631 explicitly identifies Chicago artist 41221 and NGA constituent 3584. Local biography years remain None / None; Chicago's numeric person fields remain 1613 / 1652, with object display 'Jan Both\nDutch, c. 1618-1652'. NGA's date wording 'Dutch, 1615/1618 - 1652' is retained separately. These source assertions identify the same creator through explicit identifiers and names; no biography or creator link is changed.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Landscape with Ruins and Two Cows at the Waterside, from a series of four horizontal Roman Landscapes — Jan Both. 1645/50.
Medium: Etching on ivory paper. Dimensions: Plate: 20 × 27.3 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 20.3 × 27.7 cm (8 × 10 15/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jan Both was one of the principal Dutch painters of idyllic Italian views. This print, one of a series of four horizontal Roman landscapes, is in the artist's mature style and was probably executed in Utrecht after his return from Italy in 1641. The variety of linear treatment and the deeper etching of the foreground reveal Both's efforts to capture the effects of Italy's golden light.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.