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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.