Landscape with Figures
Artist: Spanish 17th Century Artist (Spanish, 1400 - 1499)
Original Dimensions: 35 7/8" x 49 5/8"
Location: National Gallery of Art, London
About Artwork: (17th century) "This sketchily painted landscape is dotted with groups of figures in seventeenth-century Spanish dress. We are not certain where the scene is set, although it may be the forest of the Palace of El Pardo, north-west of Madrid. This palace had vast hunting grounds, which are probably those represented in Velázquez’s Philip IV hunting Wild Boar (La Tela Real), also in the Gallery’s collection. The five figures and a mule in the foreground were copied from this picture. There are two further groups of people in the middle distance and two men on horseback, one partly hidden among the trees. It is not obvious what connects these figures but their ornate costumes indicate their noble status. This painting was thought to be by Velázquez when it was acquired by the Gallery in the 1860s for a modest sum similar to that paid for Velázquez’s early masterpiece Christ in the House of Martha and Mary." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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