A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine

Prints and Drawings

1595

Jan Brueghel, the elder
Flemish, 1568-1625

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:)
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.: 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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T. Gerszi, “Joos de Momper als Zeichner, Teil 2” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, XXXVI (1994), p. 174, fig. 13 (as Joos de Momper).
The I. Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part I, Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Renaissance to the Golden Age, 10 July 2014, Christie’s London, under no. 8, p. 22.

Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 7; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 230-32, 233 (ill.), 292, cat. 82, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Sold by Bob P. Haboldt & Co., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.

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