Wooded Landscape with Donkeys and Goats, and Castle on Hill in Distance
Paul Bril
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
34.5 × 24.6 cm (13 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84070
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This drawing belongs to a group of some 20 similar sheets that record compositions by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (most of which are now lost). Far from direct observation, they are inventions that use landscape motifs for imaginative purposes. Because of the relative novelty of landscape compositions as independent of narrative or devotional subjects, Bruegel’s landscape drawings provided new inspiration for the artists who had access to his works. As such, drawings made after his compositions not...