View of the Gardens of a Palace

Lodewijk Toeput (called Pozzoserrato)

mid-16th–early 17th century

View of the Gardens of a Palace by Lodewijk Toeput (called Pozzoserrato)

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, traces of black chalk

Dimensions

7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in. (18.6 x 26.0 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001

Accession Number

2001.116

Tags

FountainsBoatsPalacesGardens

About the Artist

Lodewijk Toeput (called Pozzoserrato) · 15501603

Lodewijk Toeput, known in Italy as Il Pozzoserrato (ca. 1550–1603/1605), was a pioneering Netherlandish landscape painter and draftsman whose career bridged the artistic traditions of Flanders and Renaissance Italy. His early life remains not well documented, with his birthplace uncertain—possibly Antwerp or Mechelen, as suggested by the biographer Karel van Mander, who claimed to have met him in ...

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