Detail View: The AMICA Library: View of Heidelberg
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1995.15
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Brueghel the Elder, Jan
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Flemish
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Flemish, 1568-1625
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Made by Jan Brueghel, the Elder
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Title:
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View of Heidelberg
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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ca. 1588-89
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Creation Start Date:
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1588
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Creation End Date:
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1589
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Materials and Techniques:
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Pen and brown ink, brush and blue and brown washes, heightened with white; framing lines in pen and brown ink
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Dimensions:
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7 7/8 x 12 in. (20.0 x 30.5 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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1995.15
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Credit Line:
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Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1995
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Rights:
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Context:
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This drawing records the city of Heidelberg seen from the west across the Neckar River. The castle appears as it did before additions were made between 1590 and 1592. Brueghel's sketch dates from about 1588-1589, when the artist traveled from Antwerp to Italy, arrriving in Naples in 1590. This is the earliest known drawing by Brueghel. The definition of forms with a combination of short, vertical lines in fine pen, which in places are blurred, and the broadly applied translucent washes are characteristic, as is the composition. Brueghel made several drawings of Heidelberg and used motifs from these travel sketches in paintings such as the 'Allegory of Spring' of 1611 (private collection, Scotland), which shows Heidelberg castle as it appears in a copy after a drawing by Brueghel in the Kurpfalzisches sketchbook (Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart). |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.dp1995.15.R.tif
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