On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P01433
- Author
- Brueghel “the Elder”, Jan (Flemish),
- Title
- Landscape with Wagons
- Chronology
- 1603
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 33 cm x 43 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
Highwaymen seem to have stopped a
wagon with travelers in the midst
of a barren landscape. More wagons
and travelers on foot appear along
the trail in the background.
This work is difficult to
interpret. It may just as well
represent a violent assalt as a
simple everyday scene in a
landscape. At any rate, it shows
how Brueghel composed this sort of
scene on the basis of various
planes that reach back into the
distance. The grey sky in the
background has an opening through
which light reaches some of the
hills, adding to the feeling of
perspective.
Location on the map
