Landscape with Mountains
Medium
Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on pink prepared paper
Dimensions
sheet: 9 5/16 x 12 11/16 in. (23.6 x 32.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2001
Accession Number
2001.752
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the majestic *Landscape with Mountains*, an evocative drawing by Antonio d'En Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo a leading 17th-century Italian artist from the Valsesia region. Active around 1580–1630, Tanzio was renowned for his dramatic religious paintings influenced by Caravaggio's tenebrism, but this undated work reveals his adeptness at landscape studies, capturing the rugged beauty of alpine terrain—a nod to the northern Italian fascination with nature's grandeur. Executed in red chalk (sanguine) highlighted with white chalk on pink paper (9 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.), the medium lends a warm, ...