Landscape with Seated Figure and Dog

c. 1620

Abraham Bloemaert

Associated Names
Abraham Bloemaert

Artist, Dutch, 1566 - 1651

The image features an elevated view showing a rustic setting with a reclining figure and a dog under a sprawling tree. The horizon is low, marked by a line separating the sky from the land. Trees or shrubs are visible in the distance. The artwork uses detailed line work and cross-hatch shading for texture and depth, resembling a pen and ink or engraving style. The color scheme is monochromatic, mainly in shades of brown on a beige background. The scene includes a person wearing a hat under a large tree with a dog beside them, as well as distant hills, trees, and birds in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk and pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper, incised for transfer and blackened on verso

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16 x 20.7 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1978.81.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    under Roethlisberger 473

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

South African collector; (H. Shickman Gallery, New York); Robert H. and Clarice Smith; gift to NGA, 1978.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 77.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: no. 324

Markings

none

Watermarks

Foolscap? (Briquet 15746, 15748?)

Wikidata ID

Q64533202

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