Village Among the Trees

Prints and Drawings

c. 1560

Unknown artist
Flemish, active in Antwerp, mid-16th century

This rare and unusually early landscape drawing was made on paper prepared with blue wash to create a middle tone to which the artist added both darker elements in the brown ink and lighter ones with white and colored watercolors.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Master of the Small Landscapes
Title: Village Among the Trees
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1555–1565
Medium: Pen and brown ink, heightened with opaque white watercolor and touches of pink and yellow watercolor, over black chalk, on blue tinted laid paper, laid down on laid paper
Inscriptions: Verso, upper center, in pen and brown ink: R/No. 38; also verso, center in graphite: Original Drawing by Jan … [illegible]; verso, lower left, in graphite: Bruegel, Jan/ 1568–1625/ Winter landscape/ Colls. Spencer, Esdaile, Fairfax-Murray, Laporte; verso, lower left, in graphite: 20/ No 15/ 7-; verso, lower center, in graphite: comp. Piece in Windsor Castle; verso, lower right, graphite: 203/ outside mat; verso, lower right, in graphite: CE [another inscription in this corner but illegible … Aovinghe?]
Dimensions: Primary support: 23.8 × 39.4 cm (9 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 33.9 × 49 cm (13 3/8 × 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest from the estate of Everettt D. Graff
Reference Number: 1965.252
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020.

Earl Spencer (died 18th cen.), Althorp [stamp (Lugt 1530), recto, lower right, in black]. William Esdaile (1758–1837), London [script (Lugt 2617), recto, lower right, and verso, lower left, in brown]. William Frazer (1824–1899), Dublin [stamp (Lugt 2618), on mount, recto, lower left, in black]. Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919), London [inscribed in another hand verso of mount, lower center, in graphite]; probably sold, Anderson Galleries, New York, Nov. 6–7, 1924, lot 185, as Landscape by Joris Hoefnagel. Dr. George L. Laporte, New York [stamp (Lugt 1170), recto, lower right, in black]. Unidentified collector [stamp (Lugt 2168), verso of mount, center, in reddish brown]. Bequeathed by Everett D. Graff (1885–1964), Winnetka, Ill. to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965.

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