Art Institute of Chicago
Village Among the Trees
Unknown artist
- Date
- c. 1560
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, heightened with opaque white watercolor and touches of pink and yellow watercolor, over black chalk, on blue tinted laid paper, laid down on laid paper
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This rare and unusually early landscape drawing was made on paper prepared with blue wash to create a middle tone to which the artist added both darker elements in the brown ink and lighter ones with white and colored watercolors.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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