Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground
Nicolaes Berchem
1665–1675
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and black wash, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 × 30.7 cm (10 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk stickswashprints and drawinginorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
Nicolaes Bechem went to Italy in 1642 and remained there for three years; he may have returned in the 1650s. Most of his painted works are Italianate landscapes peopled with travelers and animals. Like Jan Both, Berchem was influenced by the work of Claude Lorrain.
