# The Boulder Crowned with Trees, in Herman van Swanevelt

Herman van Swanevelt made this. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A boulder crowned with trees rises in an oval landscape framed by overhanging branches, with distant mountains and a winding path where a small figure gives the scene its scale.

[Read the full label](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-boulder-crowned-with-trees-nga-53886#about-work)

## The work

- Medium: etching
- Type: Print
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1973.32.18
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Herman van Swanevelt](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/herman-van-swanevelt), Dutch, c. 1600–1655

Van Swanevelt, from Woerden in Holland, spent the late 1620s and 1630s in Rome, where he worked in the circle of Claude Lorrain and became one of the Dutch painters who carried the golden light of the Roman Campagna into northern landscape.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Herman van Swanevelt's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-herman-van-swanevelt?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Dutch and Flemish Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-and-flemish-baroque?hang=749) (94 works)
- [16th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/16-netherlands?hang=749) (35 works)

## Get it

- [Print this work](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-boulder-crowned-with-trees-nga-53886#print)
- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1566.jpg?dl=1
- [The work's page](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-boulder-crowned-with-trees-nga-53886)