Italian Landscape with an Ox-cart

Italian Landscape with an Ox-cartA copy of Both's original in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Corsini, Rome; possibly, according to Burke, a replica painted by Both himself.

above hovers an allegorical figure of Rome and in the foreground is a River God representing the Tiber

fine grasses

Until 1880 given to Mola and then catalogued as Italian School

around 1627 Van Ostade was a pupil of Frans Hals

A lost picture almost identical to this

Knightsbridge

1788 in the Royal Collection (London 1986

These were the works eagerly sought by collectors in the eighteenth century - but Murillo's contemporary fame rested primarily upon his religious paintings

a more courtly and decorative style emerged

The painting is

The inscription shows the remains of a false Cuyp signature (possibly added by Bourgeois) and the painting was exhibited in the early 19th-century as by Cuyp

so he lay his head on a stone and dreamed he saw a ladder from earth to Heaven with angels ascending and descending ('Genesis'