Extensive Landscape Seen from the Edge of a Forest

1666

Joris van der Haagen

Associated Names
Joris van der Haagen

Artist, Dutch, c. 1615 - 1669

The image shows a landscape drawn from an elevated point of view. Shrubs and grass are textured in the foreground, with a tree extending its branches in the top left corner. The horizon is high, with undulating distant land and a small village with a spired building, likely a church. The drawing features fine brushstrokes detailing foliage, architecture, and terrain. The color palette is subdued with earthy browns and muted grays. The sky is softly rendered, providing a calm atmosphere and vast open space in the composition.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.7 × 40.4 cm (10 1/8 × 15 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2010.93.25

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Hudson [1701-1779], London (Lugt 2432). (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, by 1961); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1961; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1975

  • Drawings: Techniques and Types. The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1975, no. D 11.

1991

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, and elsewhere. Princeton, 1991, 180-181, no. 81 (Frederick A. den Broeder).

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 172 (color).

Inscriptions

By the artist, upper right in pen and brown ink: JHagen 1666

Wikidata ID

Q64591039

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