Village Among the Trees
Master of the Small Landscapes
1555–1565
- 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
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 23.8 × 39.4 cm (9 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 33.9 × 49 cm (13 3/8 × 19 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkpaintchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingsgouacheprints and drawinginorganic materialwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
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.
