Norwegian Landscape with a Timber Yard
1644
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with watercolor over black chalk, on buff-colored laid paper
- Dimensions
- 13.4 × 32.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-202061
The sheet depicts an unidentified Norwegian village from an elevated vantage point. Featuring rustic buildings constructed with rough-hewn planks, a tall bell tower that punctuates the horizontal composition, and neatly stacked logs of various lengths, the landscape glorifies the Scandinavian timber industry. Two figures rest beside a wooden fence. Their small size make the wooden buildings appear monumental in scale. This monogrammed drawing was made as a finished work of art intended for sale to a 17th-century Dutch collector interested in travel and the lucrative timber trade of the Baltic region.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1644 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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