Village Among the Trees

Master of the Small LandscapesWW-1555-000563

1555·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·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.)

Bequest from the estate of Everettt D. Graff

Catalogue

Year: 1555
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.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Master of the Small Landscapes

Artist

Master of the Small Landscapes

Drawing

The Master of the Small Landscapes was a Flemish artist from the mid-16th century known for his landscape drawings. The name of this unidentified artist is derived from a series of 44 prints of landscapes that were created after the artist’s drawings, some of which have been preserved. Together with the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the drawings of the Master played an important role in the evolution of Northern Renaissance landscape art from the world landscape into an independent genre.

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