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A Mountainous River Landscape with a Hermit and a Chapel
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A Mountainous River Landscape with a Hermit and a Chapel

Medium

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink along upper and right border

Dimensions

7 1/2 x 10 7/16 in. (19.1 x 26.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2005

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Matthijs Bril the Younger

1550–1583Southern Netherlands

Flemish painter; brother of Paul Bril. He moved to Rome at a young age. He is documented as the painter of several frescoes in the Vatican. Comment on works: Landscapes; History