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Pastoral Landscape
Attributed to: Esaias van de Velde (Dutch, 1587–1630)
Formerly attributed to: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
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
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Culling his sources from images of Italy, the artist brings together shepherd, ruins, waterfalls, stone bridges, and trails of clouds to compose an ideal arcadian landscape. Three carved woodblocks, printed one after the other, give this fantasy landscape the appearance of a wash drawing.
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 241, ii; Hollstein 377 [Goltzius]
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955; Lugt 3593), Boston; 1955, bequest of Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 8, 1963)