Landscape (recto); Landscape (verso), 1489–90, Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on gray-green prepared paper (recto); pen and brown ink on unprepared off-white paper (verso), 8 1/16 × 11 in. (20.4 × 28 cm), Drawings, Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Città della Pieve, active by 1469–died 1523 Fontignano), Discovered by George Goldner at auction in 1992, this view of wooded hills descending toward a river is an extremely rare example of a landscape drawing by the artist, and is drawn in a delicate chiaroscuro technique with brown ink and white on a dark ground, full of atmospheric effects
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Landscape, recto, verso, 1489–90, Brush, brown wash, highlighted, white gouache, gray-green prepared paper, pen, ink, unprepared off-white, 8 1/16, 11, 20.4, 28 cm, Drawings, Perugino, Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, Italian, Città della Pieve, active by, 1469–died, 1523, Fontignano, Discovered, George Goldner, auction, 1992, view, wooded hills descending, river, extremely rare, example, landscape drawing, artist, drawn, delicate chiaroscuro, technique, white, dark ground, full, atmospheric effects
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