The Ox Cart, View Between Ancona and Sinigaglia, from the series “The Upright Italian Landscapes”

Idle herders and resting livestock set amid crumbling architecture, rocky cliffs, and babbling brooks—these are all hallmarks of the “Italianate” landscape, a subgenre within 17th-century Dutch landscape art.

In this etching, Jan Both, who spent three years traveling through Italy, captured the diffuse, bright sunlight and mountainous terrain of the Adriatic Coast in his depiction of peasants and cattle herders on a country road.