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.
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!
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