Art, literature & history
A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine
1595
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1987.13
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jan Brueghel the Elder. A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine — Jan Brueghel the Elder. 1595.
Medium: Pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: 11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jan Brueghel the Elder was the third child of the renowned genre and landscape painter Pieter Bruegel. Jan spent a number of years in Italy as a young man, and there developed a sensitivity for landscape drawing that would remain with him throughout his later career in Antwerp. This sheet, dating from his last year in Rome, demonstrates the artist's ability to reconcile the small and everyday with the grand and sublime.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.