A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine
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.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
93281
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.