Jan Brueghel, the elder
Flemish, 1568-1625
A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine
INV-9328
Jan Brueghel, the elder
Flemish, 1568-16251595
A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine
Jan Brueghel, the elder Flemish, 1568-1625 →ink or chalk washdrawings (visual works)
Date
1595
Medium
Pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Helen Regenstein Fund
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.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
Bouquet of Flowers in an Earthenware Vase
Attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568–1625)
Temple at Tivoli
Jacob van der Ulft (Dutch, 1627-after 1688) or after Jan Brueghel, the elder (Flemish, 1568-1625)
Mountainous Landscape with The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Aegidius Sadeler II (Flemish, c. 1570–1629) after Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568–1625)
