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Summer Landscape (The Road to Emmaus)
Image Not Available for Summer Landscape (The Road to Emmaus)

Summer Landscape (The Road to Emmaus)

Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1587–1630)
Date1612–13
MediumOil on oak panel
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 × 12 1/2 in. (20.6 × 31.8 cm)
Frame: 13 1/2 × 17 3/4 × 2 1/8 in. (34.3 × 45.1 × 5.4 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1958.42
Status
Not on view
More Information
Esaias van de Velde was a pioneer in the development of naturalistic landscape painting in the Netherlands during the early seventeenth century. The Summer Landscape is one of the artist's earliest known paintings, and includes a biblical narrative, an element usually absent from his later works. A now lost pendant to the Oberlin picture depicted a winter landscape with the Flight into Egypt. The two seasons were symbolically juxtaposed with the two pilgrimages that bracketed Christ's life on earth, those to Egypt and Emmaus.
Exhibition History
An American University Collection: Works of Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
  • Kenwood House, London (May 3, 1962 - October 30, 1962 )
Youthful Works by Great Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 10, 1963 - March 30, 1963 )
The Century of Shakespeare
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 10, 1964 - April 30, 1964 )
Seventeenth Century Painters of Haarlem
  • Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (April 2, 1965 - June 13, 1965 )
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10, 1973 - September 2, 1973 )
Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century
  • Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (February 19, 1983 - April 17, 1983 )
Work in Context: Herri met de Bles and the Development of the Netherlandish Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 15, 1996 - September 9, 1996 )
Collections
  • European
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