Mountain Landscape with a Distant Vista
Also titled Berglandschap met uitzicht op een vlakte
Guercino (Cento, 1591–1666)
c. 1640 - c. 1650
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 274 mm x width 423 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- I.Q. van Regteren Altena Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Guercino made landscape drawings purely for his own pleasure. They bear no relation to his altarpieces and numerous other paintings. While the compositions likely sprang from his imagination, some are reminiscent of the landscape around Cento, the artist’s birthplace. Executed in pen and ink only, they follow in the tradition of Italian landscape drawings, such as those by Titian and Domenico Campagnola.
