Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • Collection
  • Collection Research
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Watch / Listen / Read

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum
Watercolor in soft shades of brown and blue depicting a rustic  landscape with prominent windmills against a bright sky, where horse drawn carts travel along a path into the horizon.

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Landscape with Two Windmills and a Town,

Maker

  • Jan Brueghel the Elder

Title

Landscape with Two Windmills and a Town

Medium

ink, wash technique

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Pen and brushpoint with ink,
  • brush and blue and green (faded to blue) washes on antique laid paper

Techniques

  • Pen and brushpoint with ink,
  • brush and blue and green (faded to blue) washes on antique laid paper

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

20 x 31.4 cm (7 7/8 x 12 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pen and ink, LL: "J. Brugel"

Stamped LR with the collector's mark of Pier-Jean Mariette (1694-1774; Lugt 1852)

Watermark: Cockatrice (Heawood no. 842, Holland ca. 1611)

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Henry D. Sharpe

Object Number

50.297

Landscape with Two Windmills and a Town

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Inscribed in pen and ink, LL: "J. Brugel"

Stamped LR with the collector's mark of Pier-Jean Mariette (1694-1774; Lugt 1852)

Watermark: Cockatrice (Heawood no. 842, Holland ca. 1611)

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Design and Description

January 27 - April 9, 2006

Under the Magnifying Glass

September 22, 2000 - January 14, 2001

Treasures on Paper

June 13 - August 19, 1989

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Landscape with Two Windmills and a Town with the accession number of 50.297. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Main Navigation

  • Visit

    • Hours & Admission
    • Accessibility & Amenities
    • Tours & Group Visits
    • Visitor Guidelines
  • Art & Design

    • Collection Research
    • Collection
    • Past Exhibitions
  • Join / Give

    • Become a Member
    • Give
  • Exhibitions & Events

    • Exhibitions
    • Events
  • Watch / Listen / Read

    • The Latest
    • Publications
    • Articles
    • Audio & Video

Footer Secondary Navigation

  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use
Tickets
Homepage
Go to the risd.edu homepage. This link will open in a new window.