Landscape with River and Mill

Prints and Drawings

c. 1540

Unknown Artist
Flemish, active Antwerp, mid-16th century

One of only a few examples to survive from the earlier decades of the 16th century, this drawing demonstrates the emerging interest in landscape as a subject independent of narrative or devotional scenes. Although the compositional elements described here seem like those one could observe—a town set in a dell—the manner of their description is stylized, indicating that the scene may have actually come from the artist’s imagination.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Unknown artist
Title: Landscape with River and Mill
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.: 1535–1545
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "195"; verso, center, in pen and dark brown ink: ‘31:’followed by a circle and dot within a square; verso, lower right, in red ink: “Lot 1766”; and in dark brown ink: “156”
Dimensions: 18.8 × 28.4 cm (7 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2977
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S. J. Gudlaugsson, “Het Errera-Schetsboek en Lucas van Valckenborch.” Oud Holland 74 (1959), pp. 136 and 138, fig. 34.
Burton L. Dunbar, “Some Observations on the ‘Errera Sketchbook’ in Brussels.” Bulletin Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 21 (1972), p. 59, under note 14.

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, Nov. 7, 1986–Jan. 17, 1987, pp. 57–58, cat. 8 (ill.), as Antwerp artist; also New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Jan. 30–Apr. 5, 1987.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020.

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), London [stamp (Lugt 2364), recto, lower right, in black]. Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871–1946), Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon [inscription (Lugt 153), recto, lower right, in black]; probably sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 26–27, 1911, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center, in black].

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