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Pastoral Landscape

Attributed to: Esaias van de Velde (Dutch, 1587–1630)
Formerly attributed to: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
about 1615

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut with two tone blocks in shades of green on laid paper
Dimensions 18.8 x 25.8 cm (7 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.614
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 241, ii; Hollstein 377 [Goltzius]
DescriptionWm.: coat of arms with two lions surmounted by sword (variant of Briquet 1976)
Three blocks: olive-green, green, black.
Unusually strong impression on blue paper-Well preserved in color, II
Marks PDP Watermark Type: Top of eagle's wing
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955; Lugt 3593), Boston; May 8, 1963, his bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 8, 1963)