The Cabriolet
Primary
Gerrit Claesz Bleker
(Haarlem, The Netherlands, circa 1610–1656)
NationalityDutch, Europe
Date1643
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 7 3/4 × 11 5/8 in. (19.7 × 29.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.2446
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.2446
On View
Not on viewThe Cabriolet is especially engaging as a measured, dignified presentation of a humble means of transportation and of peasants in proud relation to their terrains. The print is also an early example of figures and animals in particular –– both the horse and the cattle in the background –– given prominence over the forms and personality of the landscape. Perhaps inspired by Bleker, Paul Potter would specialize in etchings that focused on such stolid creatures, establishing a genre of Dutch and later European printmaking
Exhibitions
After Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen
Published circa 1614-1618
