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A Wooden Bridge Leading to a House Built above a River  1603

by Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen

Paulus van Vianen possessed the remarkable ability to translate his own delicately rendered landscape drawings into extraordinarily detailed chasing in silver. For example, this cottage and rickety bridge – possibly somewhere near Salzburg – appears on a silver plaquette of 1607 in the Rijksmuseum. That relief is on view in Gallery 2.3.
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  1. Recently I visited the exposition on Roeland Savery, in the Mauritshuis in Den Hague. To my surprise, I saw exactly the same bridge, yet from a slightly different perspective (and I guess drawn by Savery, although I didn't photograph the eplanation next to this drawing). Curious to learn how these two artists were connected!