Landscape with Wine Harvest, Pietro da Cortona, ca. 1630
Landscape with Wine Harvest, ca. 1630, Brush and gray wash, touches of pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, with an illusionistic frame drawn in yellow and brown wash, Sheet: 14 9/16 x 19 5/16 in. (37 x 49 cm), Drawings, Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome), A work of the artist's mature years, this composition was probably a presentation piece for a patron, judging from its high degree of finish and virtuoso technique. The drawing was painted almost entirely with the tip of the brush to obtain delicately pictorial effects of light (for example, in the rays emanating from between the clouds and in the highlights on the bark of the trees), and an atmospheric conception of space
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