The image depicts a rural landscape with buildings, hills, and distant mountains or hills. The viewpoint seems slightly elevated, indicating a perspective looking from a small hill or distance. The drawing showcases detailed structures like houses and medieval-style buildings against rocky terrain. The landscape expands into rolling hills and peaks on the right, with fine lines and cross-hatching used for texture and depth. The color scheme is monochrome, mainly brown and sepia. The foreground contains rocky outcrops, trees, hills, and foliage, creating depth and continuity in the scenery.
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The image depicts a rural landscape with buildings, hills, and distant mountains or hills. The viewpoint seems slightly elevated, indicating a perspective looking from a small hill or distance. The drawing showcases detailed structures like houses and medieval-style buildings against rocky terrain. The landscape expands into rolling hills and peaks on the right, with fine lines and cross-hatching used for texture and depth. The color scheme is monochrome, mainly brown and sepia. The foreground contains rocky outcrops, trees, hills, and foliage, creating depth and continuity in the scenery.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Village Nestled at the Foot of a Hill (recto)

Circle of Giorgione (Giulio Campagnola?)

Date
1509/1515
Medium
pen and brown ink over leadpoint on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 18.8 × 21.9 cm (7 3/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2006.11.25.a
Credit line
Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner
Time span
1501 to 1550
Department
CG-E

Subjects and terms

  • architecture
  • Venetian
  • Landscape
  • City
  • Nature
  • Building
Provenance

? Jacopo Tintoretto [1518-1594], Venice; ? unidentified collection (Lugt 2924?); Maurice de Marignane [born 1879] (Lugt 1872), Paris; Hubert de Marignane, Paris; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 1 February 1964; by descent to Andrea Woodner, New York, 1990, given to NGA.

Inscription

by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: di Tizian

Watermarks

letter "V", probably a countermark, or a fragment below another image

NGA object ID 75843. 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.