drawing
- Museum number
- Oo,9.49
- Description
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Trees on a hillside; a clump of trees on a broken slope, a cottage partly seen at far right. 1634
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1634
- Dimensions
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Height: 185 millimetres
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Width: 277 millimetres (sheet made up)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The inscription ‘van dyck F: 1634’ leaves no ambiguity as to when the present drawing was made, but it is not certain whether it depicts a location in England or Flanders. Another drawing in the BM (inv. no. 1897,0410.16) may depict the same place but from another point of view. The present drawing was constructed through a free handling of the pen and ink that entirely gives it the air of having been made in situ. Despite its speed of execution, Van Dyck deployed a variety of strokes from parallel hatching to long swirling strokes to short dash work. That Van Dyck preserved this study for future reference is indicated by the inclusion of the gathering of trees at the right in his portrait of Filippo Francesco d’Este, Marchese di Lanzo, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inv. 484).
Lit: H. Vey, ‘Die Zeichnungen Anton Van Dycks’, Brussels, 1962, no. 294; F. Stampfle, 'Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library', 1991, p.124, under no.272, fig.272; M. Royalton-Kisch, "The Light of Nature: Landscape drawings and watercolours by Van Dyck and his contemporaries", exh.cat. Antwerp and London (British Museum), 1999, no.17.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1999 May-Aug, Antwerp, Rubenshuis, Light of Nature
1999 Sep-Nov, BM, Light of Nature
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Oo,9.49