This horizontal landscape showing ruins in a countryside is drawn on dark parchment-brown paper. The view is framed to the left by a tall leafy tree that reaches off the top edge of the paper and to the right by ruins made up of two columns beneath an entablature. A group of four people sit together in the middle distance at the lower center of the composition while eight animals, possibly goats, graze and rest nearby. The animals, people, ruins, and tree to the left are drawn with brown ink. More trees and buildings in the distance at the center is drawn lightly with graphite, giving it a hazy look.
Artwork Details
- Date
- c. 1650
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with graphite and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on apricot-prepared paper
- Dimensions
- 9987 × 8280 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original