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Village Among the Trees

A work made of 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.
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  • A work made of 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.

Date:

c. 1560

Artist:

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

About this artwork

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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