A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine1595
Jan Brueghel the Elder painted this in 1595, aged 27. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jan Brueghel the Elder painted this in 1595, aged 27. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Flemish, 1568–1625 · Born in Brussels; died in Antwerp.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1987.13
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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