View near Orleans
c. 1695–97
Medium
Pen and brown ink, grey, brown, pink-brown, and pale grey mixed with white washes, with traces of graphite underdrawing on laid paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
image: 22.8 × 29.4 cm · matted: 38.4 × 46.8 × 0.5 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
2019.17
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
The Dutch artist Isaac de Moucheron’s view of a rural hillside is inscribed in Dutch “Buyten Orleans” (outside Orleans), indicating that he made the drawing while passing through France on a journey from the Netherlands to Italy. De Moucheron likely captured this scene with graphite and ink while on-site and then finished it later with gray, brown, and pink washes. Many Dutch artists took Italian sojourns to sketch the landscape, antique sculpture, and architecture.