Landscape with Cottages

Grimmer, a contemporary of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was renowned as a landscape painter. In this early work — the first dated by the artist — the distant view at the right recalls the imaginary, composite panoramas typical of Netherlandish landscapes of the first half of the sixteenth century. Grimmer broke with that tradition, however, and developed a more naturalistic approach, introducing the kind of intimate depiction of the Flemish countryside seen in the foreground of this picture.

About the painting

Particulars

In the same room · Gallery 2540, floor 2, European Art, 13th–16th century, Harvard Art Museums

Yes, receiving visitors

In the catalog

Sources

Landscape with Carnival Scenes

Die Anbetung der Hirten

Landschap met de barmhartige Samaritaan

Paysage

Te Laken op den rechten wech. [The View of Drootbeke, near the Road to Laken; Der Blick auf Drootbeke]

Elsene bij Brussele. [Elsene near Brussels; Elsene bei Brüssel]

Ter sijden Laken

Stal van bouen. [View of Stal from the North; Blick auf Stal von Norden]

February, 1618

March, 1618

Venus, c. 1600

Title page, c. 1600

The Sun, c. 1600

Mars, c. 1600

Mercury, c. 1600

The Moon, c. 1600