This pen-and-wash drawing is catalogued as School of Nicolas Poussin, meaning it was made not by Poussin himself but by a follower or workshop artist working in his manner. It depicts an idealized Italianate landscape, a genre Poussin helped define during his decades in Rome, arranging a hilltop castle, trees, and a foreground pool of water into the kind of ordered, classically balanced composition his landscape circle became known for. Drawings like this show how widely Poussin's approach to landscape was studied and repeated by students and imitators in seventeenth-century Rome. The sheet is held in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection of Old Master drawings.
Jacquard-woven both sides in soft, durable yarn; insert included.
