Landscape with a Moated Village
Medium
pen and brown ink; framing lines in brown ink (bottom)
Dimensions
16.7 × 31.2 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund by exchange
Accession Number
1929.552
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
The so-called small landscapes published in Antwerp in the late 1550s constitute a turning point in the history of landscape as a genre. This drawing and its related print (1964.404) from the series present the local countryside in a simple, unembellished composition from a level point of view. The artist portrayed the rustic village, pasture, and country road in a straightforward and immediate fashion. The title page for the series, issued by publisher Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp, advertised tha...