Imaginary Landscape

Monogrammist AM

ca. 1600 · Brush and black ink and gray washes heightened with white gouache on reddish prepared paper · Robert Lehman Collection

Although this small drawing belongs to the rich Netherlandish landscape tradition of the sixteenth century, its formulaic handling borders on folk art. The color effects and black border, clearly intended as decorative, suggest that the work may have embellished a piece of furniture, possibly a little chest on which several similar pictures protected by panes of glass adorned small doors or drawer fronts.

Artist

Monogrammist AM

Date

ca. 1600

Medium

Brush and black ink and gray washes heightened with white gouache on reddish prepared paper

Culture

German

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975