Landscape
17th century
Medium
Red chalk on light tan paper. Framing outline in red chalk. Partial framing outline? in pen and brown ink at lower right edge
Dimensions
7-7/8 x 10-1/2 in. (20 x 26.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.430
Tags
Art Historical Context
Aureliano Milani’s *Landscape* is a delicate red-chalk drawing created in the seventeenth century, when Italian artists increasingly turned to nature as a subject worthy of independent study. Working on light tan paper, Milani used the warm, velvety tones of red chalk to capture the soft textures of foliage and the gentle rhythms of trees and terrain. The addition of a framing outline in the same medium suggests the sheet may have been intended as a finished presentation piece or a carefully considered study for a larger composition. Milani, active in Bologna and Rome, belonged to the generat...