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Village Among the Trees

c. 1560
Pen and brown ink, heightened with opaque white watercolor and touches of pink and yellow watercolor, over black chalk, on blue tinted laid paper, laid down on laid paper
23.8 × 39.4 cm (9.4 × 15.5 in)

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This rare and unusually early landscape drawing was made on paper prepared with blue wash to create a middle tone to which the artist added both darker elements in the brown ink and lighter ones with white and colored watercolors.

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