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The image shows a landscape with a low horizon line, featuring a church, lush foliage, rolling hills, and a central figure of an archer with scattered arrows. The artwork has detailed linework in a monochromatic color palette of brown tones, resembling an ink or pen-and-ink drawing. The sky above the landscape includes stylized clouds, stars, a sun with rays, and a half-moon with a face.
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The image shows a landscape with a low horizon line, featuring a church, lush foliage, rolling hills, and a central figure of an archer with scattered arrows. The artwork has detailed linework in a monochromatic color palette of brown tones, resembling an ink or pen-and-ink drawing. The sky above the landscape includes stylized clouds, stars, a sun with rays, and a half-moon with a face.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

"You Are Shooting at Heaven" [fol. 9 recto]

French early 16th Century

Date
c. 1512/1515
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2006.11.36
Credit line
Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner
Time span
1501 to 1550
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Speculum principis (Mirror for Princes)

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Arrow
  • Sky
  • Man
Provenance

(Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 July 1937, lot 64); (sale, London, Sotheby's, 15-17 November 1937, lot 546); (sale, London, Maggs Bros., Ltd., catalogue 709, 1941, no. 30); (purchased by William H. Schab Gallery via Paul Graupe); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Inscription

across bottom in pen and brown ink: In celu iaculatur qui in caffum- / laborat: auf qui nititur a liquem- / lareffere quem ledere nequit. At crebzo / eueint b+ fagita emiffa in ipz aiculati / renvitfafux

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