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A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine

A work made of pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper.

Date:

1595

Artist:

Jan Brueghel, the elder
Flemish, 1568-1625

About this artwork

Jan Brueghel the Elder was the third child of the renowned genre and landscape painter Pieter Bruegel. Jan spent a number of years in Italy as a young man, and there developed a sensitivity for landscape drawing that would remain with him throughout his later career in Antwerp. This sheet, dating from his last year in Rome, demonstrates the artist’s ability to reconcile the small and everyday with the grand and sublime.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jan Brueghel, the elder

Title

A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine

Place

Flanders (Artist's nationality:)

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1595

Medium

Pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Dated upper left, in pen and brown: "1595"; inscribed, verso, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "No 231"

Dimensions

11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Helen Regenstein Fund

Reference Number

1987.13

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