Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock
Jan Lievens
1622–74
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on Japanese paper. Lined.
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/8 x 15 3/16in. (23.2 x 38.5cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.153
Tags
AnimalsLandscapesTreesShepherds
About the Artist
Jan Lievens · 1607–1674
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was born in Leiden and showed exceptional artistic promise from an early age, beginning his training with the local painter Joris van Schooten before traveling to Amsterdam around 1617 to study for two years under Pieter Lastman—the same teacher who would later instruct Rembrandt van Rijn. Lievens and Rembrandt, near-contemporaries born in the same city, subsequently shared...