Landscape with Milkmaid
Jan Lievens
1622–74
Medium
Pen and brown ink on Japanese paper
Dimensions
sheet: 8 11/16 x 14 1/16in. (22.1 x 35.7cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.137
Tags
HousesCowsLandscapesTreesWorkingHuman Figures
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...