Ruins Overlooking River with Bridge
Medium
Black chalk, on blue laid paper, tipped onto buff wove paper
Dimensions
19.6 × 25.7 cm (7 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
3359
About the Artist
Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne · 1589–1662
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589–1662) was born in Delft to parents who had fled religious strife in the Southern Netherlands; his father, stocking maker Pieter van de Venne from Lier, died before his birth, and his mother, Jannetgen Beuvincx from Tournai, remarried weaver Laurens Wittocx, producing half-brother Salomon Lourens, a coarse painter and bricklayer. He collaborated closely with olde...