Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Landscape with Farm Buildings and Figures

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
1736-1810

Landscape with Farm Buildings and Figures

7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (188 x 233 mm)
Brush and black ink and wash, over black chalk on paper.
1995.5

Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at upper left in black chalk, "J J de Boissieu".
Summary

This picturesque landscape is an invented view pieced together from nature studies. Other examples can be seen (such as "Landscape with Cottage"). Weimar, Schlock Museum KK 8595, repr. in "From Callot to Greuze", no. 99 and "Farm in a Landscape with Three Figures", Lexington, University of Kentucky Art Museum, fig. 1). Another similar drawing is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("Farmyard", 1978.411.1; repr. in Bean and Turcic, no. 11).

Associated names
Jones, David, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department