Wooded Landscape with Donkeys and Goats, and Castle on Hill in Distance
After Pieter Bruegel, the elder (Flemish, 1525/30-1569)
n.d.
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
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 only attest to Bruegel’s influence in the rise of landscape as a distinct genre of artistic expression, they also record some of his compositions that would otherwise be unknown.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Original size
- 34.5 × 24.6 cm (13 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 3 exhibitions
Provenance
- Joseph van Haecken (c. 1699–1749), London.
- John Jacob Lindman (1854–1926), Chicago.
- William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.
Exhibitions
- Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä.
- Als Zeichner, Sept. 19–Nov. 16, 1975, (as after Pieter Bruegel).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, 229, 291-92, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
