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Mountainous Landscape with a Chapel
Creator
Jacques de Gheyn IIDutch Artist · 1565–1629
All works by this person →Initially trained by his father, Jacques de Gheyn II moved to Haarlem around 1585 to study with Hendrick Goltzius for five years. He absorbed Goltzius's sinuous linear technique, which appeared in de Gheyn's early engravings. He moved to Leiden in the mid-1590s, then gave up engraving around 1600 and began painting and experimenting with etching. By 1605 de Gheyn had settled in The Hague, where he
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1600–1603
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, on laid paper
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0015919d-0896-4cab-a71e-fd4d86244c9a
Drawn in a calligraphic style, the sheet depicts a sweeping mountainous landscape with a road winding along a cliff, over a stone bridge, and through a village. A picturesque chapel on the edge of an abyss stands in the composition's center. At right a panorama with a meandering river is made all the more expansive by the low horizon line. At left houses are nestled into the base of high rocks which reach up to the top edge of the sheet. With its deep view into the distance, this drawing continues the compositional format of the landscapes of Pieter Brueghel (1525-1569). Yet the variety of curving, zigzag, scratchy pen lines impart a sense of animation into the stillness of a Bruegelian world landscape. The extraordinary verve and variety of lines animate the boulders, shrubs, trees, and clouds, creating a landscape that teems with life.
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