Johannes van Doetechum the Elder
1605
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Country Village with Post Mill is a 1605 ink by Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a quiet village with small thatched-roof houses clustered around a windmill. A winding path leads through fields, where a few people and animals move slowly. The sky is busy with swirling clouds and birds flying low, while trees line the edges of the scene. The artist used fine lines to capture light and texture, like the rough look of the fields or the smoothness of the windmill’s blades. This was done with a technique called etching. Next, look up etching to see how artists like this one scratch images into metal plates.
Joannes van Doetecum the Elder (1530 – 1605) was a Dutch engraver-cartographer known for his etched works after genre scenes by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and maps of various cities in the Netherlands.
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