The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

Trees before a Village

third quarter 17th century

attributed to Jan Lievens

(Dutch, 1607–1674)

Netherlands, 17th century

Point of brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink (bottom and right edges)

Support: Japanese paper laid down on beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 13.8 x 33.7 cm (5 7/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund and Gift of Mary Price 1993.204

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower right, in brown ink: J Livens ; upper left, in graphite: 910 ; center, in graphite: Lucas Van Vden [partially erased] / ? A Van de Velde [partially erased] / [illegible] ; lower left, in graphite: V Uden [crossed out and partially erased] ; lower left, in graphite: Livins 1971; lower right, in graphite: #52 / 1/8" float / 3 [erased] 21

Provenance
[C & J Goodfriend, New York]
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.204