Getty acquires Savery art work

The J. Paul Getty Museum said Tuesday it has acquired the 1617 painting “Wilderness With the Temptation of St. Anthony,” by Flemish master Roelandt Savery (1576-1639). The work, about 19 by 37 inches, will go on display next year. The price was not disclosed.

Savery was part of a Dutch family of artists, Flemish by birth, who worked for Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Rudolf sent him into the Tyrol to draw the natural wonders he found there and, about a decade later, long after Savery had returned to Amsterdam and Utrecht, those drawings were used to make the St. Anthony painting. -- Christopher Knight