Forest Landscape with Wild Animals - Pieter Bruegel, the elder

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

"Forest Landscape with Wild Animals" by Pieter Bruegel, the elder (late 16th century) Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, laid down on card.

Commentary

"Forest Landscape with Wild Animals" by Pieter Bruegel, the elder (late 16th century) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Themes to notice include pen and ink drawings. This piece is held in the so urce collection's Prints and Drawings collection. Pieter Bruegel, the elder is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: After Pieter Bruegel, the elder Flemish, 1525/30-1569. The work is cataloged within a Flanders cultural context. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as pen and ink drawings, which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, laid down on card) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (Primary support: 36 × 24.4 cm (14 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 47.8 × 36.5 cm (18 7/8 × 14 3/8 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include pen and ink drawings. Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109142

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data