View of the Gardens of a Palace
mid-16th–early 17th century
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
About the Artist
Lodewijk Toeput (called Pozzoserrato) · 1550–1603
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 ...