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A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine
Jan Brueghel, the elder (Flemish, 1568-1625)
1595
- Medium
- Pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Flanders
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
