Landscape with Cottage and Ruined Castle

Allart van Everdingen

17th century

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk with touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper; framing lines in brown ink

Fogg Museum

A sepia-toned landscape drawing depicts a rural scene with a cottage, a ruined castle in the distance, and figures engaged in various activities by a body of water. Trees and hilly terrain dominate the foreground and midground. The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift