Landscape with Figures Trimming Trees, an Allegory of the Month of March; Verso: Mountainous Landscape with Two Men Crossing a Bridge
16th century (?)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk Verso: pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, heightened with pinkish white bodycolor
Dimensions
sheet: 6 3/8 x 10 11/16 in. (16.2 x 27.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.193
Tags
About the Artist
Lodewijk Toeput (called Pozzoserrato)|Anonymous · 1550–1603
Lodewijk Toeput, known in Italy as Il Pozzoserrato (ca. 1550–1603/1605), was a pioneering Netherlandish landscape painter and draftsman whose career bridged the artistic traditions of Flanders and Renaissance Italy. His early life remains not well documented, with his birthplace uncertain—possibly Antwerp or Mechelen, as suggested by the biographer Karel van Mander, who claimed to have met him in ...