Landscape with Trees and Figures
Medium
Brush and brown ink, over a sketch in black chalk. Framing line in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 7 1/4 x 10 in. (18.4 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2010
Accession Number
2010.43
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Landscape with Trees and Figures** intimate drawing, created between 1600 and 1665, hails from the Dutch 17th century and is variously to an anonymous artist, Herman van Swane, or Karl Blechen Measuring just 7¼ × 10 inches, it a serene landscape populated by trees and human figures, rendered in brush and brown ink over a preliminary black chalk sketch, with a framing line in pen and brown ink Acquired in 2010 through the Frits and Rita Fund, it resides in the Metropolitan Museum of's Department of Drawings and Prints. The work exemplifies early techniques in Dutch landscape drawing during...