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Italian Landscape with a Bridge, 1642/52. Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper; verso, slight sketches of leaves in pen and brown ink.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper; verso, slight sketches of leaves in pen and brown ink · 20.4 × 29 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Italian Landscape with a Bridge
- Artist
- Jan Both Dutch, c. 1618-1652
- Date
- 1642/52
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper; verso, slight sketches of leaves in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 20.4 × 29 cm (8 1/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Olivia Shaler Swan Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




