Wooded Landscape with Donkeys and Goats, and Castle on Hill in Distance

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n.d.

After Pieter Bruegel, the elder
Flemish, 1525/30-1569

This drawing belongs to a group of some 20 similar sheets that record compositions by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (most of which are now lost). Far from direct observation, they are inventions that use landscape motifs for imaginative purposes. Because of the relative novelty of landscape compositions as independent of narrative or devotional subjects, Bruegel’s landscape drawings provided new inspiration for the artists who had access to his works. As such, drawings made after his compositions not only attest to Bruegel’s influence in the rise of landscape as a distinct genre of artistic expression, they also record some of his compositions that would otherwise be unknown.

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Artist: Paul Bril
Title: Wooded Landscape with Donkeys and Goats, and Castle on Hill in Distance
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.: 1500–1599
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "Paul Bril 1556–1626"; upper right, in graphite: "P. Brill"; upper left, in graphite: ‘"Paul Brill"; center, in graphite: "117/9" (in a circle); in graphite "9 ¾ x 10 ⅝ / 265"; in pen and black ink: "JJL/no 93" (in a circle); lower left, in graphite: "13 ⅝ x 9 3/4"; in pen and brown ink: ‘"No 4 May 984"; in pen and black ink: "Paulus Bril–1556–1626"
Dimensions: 34.5 × 24.6 cm (13 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1926
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Karl Arndt, “Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Als Vorläufer Coninxloos,” Bermerkungen zur Geschichte der Waldlandschaft,” Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Sitzungsberichte N.F. 14 (1965/66), p. 10, no. 5a.
Frits Lugt, Musée du Louvre, Inventaire Général des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord (Maîtres des Anciens Pays-Bas nés avant 1550) (Paris, 1968), p. 83, under no. 333.
Karl Arndt, “Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. und die Geschichte der ‘Waldlandschaft’” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 14 (1972), p. 101–103 (ill), no. K3a (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
Matthias Winner, “Neubestimmtes und Unbestimmtes in zeichnerischen Werk von Jan Breughel d. Ä.,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen XIV (1972), p. 139–140 (as after Jan Bruegel the Elder).
Hans Mielke, Pieter Bruegel: Die Zeichnungen, Pictura Nova 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996), no. 20, p. 42 (ill. P. 139).
Teréz Gerszi with the assistance of Bernadett Tóth, The New Ideal of Beauty in the Age of Pieter Bruegel: Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Budapest: Szépmu”vészeti Múzeum, 2012), under cat. No. 28, p. 78 (ill) (as after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
Louisa Wood Ruby, “Bruegel/Brueghel/Bril: The ‘Lugt Group’ Revisited,” Master Drawings 50, no. 3, p. 359–60 (ill) (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).

Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Als Zeichner, Sept. 19–Nov. 16, 1975, cat. 46, pp. 46–7, pl. 77, (as after Pieter Bruegel).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 226-27, 229 (ill.), 291-92, cat. 80, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Joseph van Haecken (c. 1699–1749), London [stamp (Lugt 2516), recto, lower left, in black]. John Jacob Lindman (1854–1926), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 1479a), recto, lower right, in black]. William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].

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