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The image shows a landscape with a cow walking along a winding path. There are detailed trees on either side, a distant village with a tower, rolling hills, mountains in the background, and a monochromatic, etching-like style in varying shades of brown.
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The image shows a landscape with a cow walking along a winding path. There are detailed trees on either side, a distant village with a tower, rolling hills, mountains in the background, and a monochromatic, etching-like style in varying shades of brown.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Landscape Near Pecchio

Remigio Cantagallina

Medium
pen and brown ink over faint traces of graphite, within a border line by the artist, on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15.2 x 22.4 cm (6 x 8 13/16 in.) mount: 18.9 x 26.2 cm (7 7/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2009.70.88
Credit line
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Landscape
  • Tree
  • Mountain
  • Road
  • animal
Provenance

The Reverand Dr. Henry Wellesley, Oxford (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1866, part of lot 954, as by Jacopo Ligozzi); Sir David Kelly (Hodgson's, London, 26 November 1954, part of lot 596)(Helene C. Seiferheld, New York); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Inscription

by artist, lower left in pen and brown ink: Pecchio

Watermarks

(mount) crown

NGA object ID 143804. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.