Three Revelers and a Gardner
1551 to 1600
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalkon laid paper
Dimensions
Overall: 17.2 x 25 cm (6 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.) support: 20.4 x 28.2 cm (8 1/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1984.3.71
About the Artist
Sebastian Vrancx · 1573–1647
Sebastiaen Vrancx (1573–1647) was a pioneering Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman, and print designer who fundamentally transformed Northern European art through his innovative approach to battle scene painting. Baptized in Antwerp's Sint-Jacobskerk on January 22, 1573, and dying in the same city on May 19, 1647, Vrancx lived through one of the most tumultuous periods in Netherlandish history—th...