Encampment Before Schenk Fort

Artists

Description

In the foreground two men are cooking over campfires; a third, sitting at the left, is rearranging his lace ruff; a group of bewigged officers are gathered in elegant poses about a table in a tent at the right; in the center middle distance a troop of soldiers heralded by trumpeters marches toward the walled city on a river peninsula in the upper middle distance; various cities and towns at the upper left border the broad river.

Dimensions

21.5 x 31.1 cm (8 7/16 x 12 1/4 in.)

Provenance

H. M. Calmann to Jakob Rosenberg, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939, inv. no. 1939.220