After Pieter Bruegel, the elder
Flemish, 1525/30-1569
Forest Landscape with Wild Animals
INV-1091
After Pieter Bruegel, the elder
Flemish, 1525/30-1569late 16th century
Forest Landscape with Wild Animals
After Pieter Bruegel, the elder Flemish, 1525/30-1569 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
late 16th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, laid down on card
Dimensions
Primary support: 36 × 24.4 cm (14 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 47.8 × 36.5 cm (18 7/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
This drawing belongs to a group of some 20 similar sheets that record compositions by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (most of which are now lost). Far from direct observation, they are inventions that use landscape motifs for imaginative purposes. Because of the relative novelty of landscape compositions as independent of narrative or devotional subjects, Bruegel’s landscape drawings provided new inspiration for the artists who had access to his works. As such, drawings made after his compositions not only attest to Bruegel’s influence in the rise of landscape as a distinct genre of artistic expression, they also record some of his compositions that would otherwise be unknown.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
The Resurrection
Philip Galle (Flemish, 1537–1612) after Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Flemish, 1525/30-1569)
Saint Jerome in the Desert
Hieronymus Cock (Flemish, c. 1510-1570) after Pieter Bruegel the elder (Flemish, 1525/30-1569)
Wooded Landscape with Donkeys and Goats, and Castle on Hill in Distance
After Pieter Bruegel, the elder Flemish, 1525/30-1569
