Landscape with, in left foreground, a man seated on the roadside on the edge of a wood and giving direction to a horseman and his servant, beyond at right, two figures on the roadside, and another three further back., Jan van Huchtenburg, etcher, after 1667, etching, Jan van Huchtenburg (1647, Haarlem-1733, Amsterdam), was a famous Dutch horse and battle painter, like Esaias van de Velde and Philips Wouwermans. He was first taught by Thomas Wijck, also represented in Te Papa's collection. On his way to visit his artist brother Jacob in Rome, he may not have got further than Paris, where he served under Adam Frans van der Meulen in the Manufacture des Gobelins (tapestries), employing him for illustrating, sketching and printmaking - this print is an example of an etching after a design by Van der Meulen.
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