A Village in the Mountains
Object type | Drawing |
Genre | Village, Town and Cityscape |
Dimensions | 21.4 x 27.5 cm |
Support | Paper |
Medium | Pen and brown ink, gray, green and blue wash, with a line of brown wash bordering it on all sides |
Further inscription | "668" |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Bailey/Walker cat. #CAME.FM.2 |
Location | Cambridge, England |
Collection | Fitzwilliam Museum |
Accession numbers | PD.212-1963 |
Tags | House, Village, Mountain, Burghers, Landscape |
External resources | Fitzwilliam Museum |
Query could this be part of the town of Spa? It is in a valley of the Ardennes, and there are at least 2 other Brueghel drawings of Spa inscribed in 1612 so it seems he took a trip there in that year to gather motifs for his work somehow.