Accession Number
2009/1.504

Title
Landscape with Animals at a Fountain

Artist(s)
Jan van Huysum

Object Creation Date
1700-1749

Medium & Support
ink, chalk on paper

Dimensions
13 9/16 in. x 13 9/16 in. x 1 in. ( 34.5 cm x 34.5 cm x 2.5 cm )

Credit Line
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Subject matter
The drawing depicts a pastoral scene in which sheep rest by an antiquated sculpture of a vase on a plinth, and a shepherd wearing drapery approaching with cattle.  

Physical Description
This ink and chalk drawing features a lamb laying in the left foreground. In the center is a sculpture of a vase on a plinth with a reservoir at its base, from which another lamb drinks. A third lamb lays in the shadow of the statue. In the background, a human figure approaches the lambs with two cows. A large, split tree in background fills the upper left part of the composition, with further landscape and mountains indicated behind it.

Primary Object Classification
Drawing

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Antique, the
fountains
lambs
landscapes (representations)
mountains
pastoral
sculpture (visual works)
shepherds
sketches
trees
vases