{"type":"artobject","objectid":134172,"objectnumber":"2019-454","sortnumber":"2019  454","displaytitle":"Landscape with a Church and Mules on a Path","department":"European Painting and Sculpture ","classification":"Paintings","datebegin":1688,"dateend":1698,"datecomputed":1693,"daterange":"A.D. 1600-1700","displaydate":"ca. 1693–95","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"42.9 × 51.1 cm (16 7/8 × 20 1/8 in.)\r\nframe: 72.4 × 82.5 × 6.3 cm (28 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Bequest of Duane E. 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As a young man, De Heusch spent seventeen years in Italy before returning to his native Utrecht. The geometric forms of the buildings in this intimate, idyllic landscape incorporate the visual vocabulary of French and Italian painters working in Rome, while the meticulous detail and dark palette reflect De Heusch’s northern roots.\n","remarks":"EUR1_02-05_WLA-Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"As a young man, Jacob de Heusch spent seventeen years in Italy (ca. 1675–92) before returning to his native Utrecht. It was in Holland that he painted all his extant work. While in Rome he abandoned the style he had learned from his uncle, Willem de Heusch—an emulator of Jan Both—and instead turned for inspiration to paintings by French and Italian landscapists. While the geometric forms of the buildings in this early, intimate, idyllic scene owe something to Poussin, and the decorative quality of the trees to the work of Gaspar Dughet (both French painters active in Rome), the coloristic notes and meticulous detail admit De Heusch’s northern roots. Particularly beautiful is the play between the shadowed foreground plane—from which the brightly lit donkey and dog lapping well-water stand out—and the sunny, airy distance. <br>","remarks":"The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<span lang=\"EN\"><p align=\"LEFT\" dir=\"LTR\">Private Collection, Rome; Christie’s, London, 4 July 1997, lot 382 (as Jan Frans van Bloemen [Orizzonte] and Pieter van Bloemen [Monsu Standard]); Duane Wilder; by bequest Princeton University Art Museum 2019</p></span>","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":226542,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2039212","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[],"terms":[{"id":2052977,"term":"paintings","aatid":300033618,"termtype":"Classification"}],"classifications":[{"id":2052977,"classification":"paintings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199338,"term":"Nazi-era gaps","termtype":"Provenance & Cultural Heritage"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"42.86"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"51.11"},{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"72.38"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"82.54"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"6.34"}],"packages":[{"packageid":246533,"name":"EPS Provenance Nazi-era gaps"},{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":206707,"name":"web_eeye_all"},{"packageid":192089,"name":"web_eeye_architectural"},{"packageid":276252,"name":"Nazi Era Sept 2025 list for web"},{"packageid":210960,"name":"Z_JS European Anchors"},{"packageid":206518,"name":"image_descriptions_newacquisitions_2019"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":225374,"name":"Gallery_02-05(Pavilion1)-European [3]"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2039212"],"displaymaker":"Jacob de Heusch, 1656/57–1701; born Utrecht, Netherlands; died  Amsterdam, Netherlands","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Jacob de Heusch (1656/57–1701; born Utrecht, Netherlands; died  Amsterdam, Netherlands), Landscape with a Church and Mules on a Path, ca. 1693–95. 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