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Pieter Bruegel the Elder made this drawing in 1553, using red-brown ink pen and delicate wash on paper. The work measures 22.8 by 33.8 centimeters and bears the artist's inscription "Bruegel 1553" at the bottom left. Mountains rise dramatically while a river winds through the valley below.
Bruegel was active in the 1550s and 1560s, working in several media including painting, drawing, and printmaking. He's acclaimed for being among the first to paint everyday life in a secular context, particularly landscapes and peasant scenes. Scholar Sellink notes that Bruegel repeated compositional schemes across works, using drawings like this to develop ideas.
The drawing now belongs to the British Museum in London. Related works include "Southern Cloister in a Valley" in Berlin and "River Landscape" in the Louvre. Scholar Tolnai has regarded this as a convincing original since 1925.

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