View near Orleans (c. 1695–97): Art, History and Details

View near Orleans (c. 1695–97) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Isaac de Moucheron (Dutch, 1667–1744).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The Dutch artist Isaac de Moucheron’s view of a rural hillside is inscribed in Dutch “Buyten Orleans” (outside Orleans), indicating that he made the drawing while passing through France on a journey from the Netherlands to Italy. De Moucheron likely captured this scene with graphite and ink while on-site and then finished it later with gray, brown, and pink washes. Many Dutch artists took Italian sojourns to sketch the landscape, antique sculpture, and architecture.

Object facts

• Title: View near Orleans
• Date: c. 1695–97
• Creator attribution: Isaac de Moucheron (Dutch, 1667–1744)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Pen and brown ink, grey, brown, pink-brown, and pale grey mixed with white washes, with traces of graphite underdrawing on laid paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink
• Dimensions: Support: 35.2 x 42.5 cm (13 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.); Matted: 38.4 x 46.8 x 0.5 cm (15 1/8 x 18 7/16 x 3/16 in.); Image: 22.8 x 29.4 cm (9 x 11 9/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - Dutch
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2019.17

A detail from the museum

The artist captured this scene in France during a long journey from the Netherlands to Italy.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• De Verzameling van Mr Chr. P. van Eeghen : Nederlandse en buitenlandse tekeningen tentoongesteld van 3 april tot 26 mei 1958, 's Rijks Prentenkabinet, Amsterdam : catalogus. Exh cat., Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1958
• Wedde, Nina, and Isaac de Moucheron. Isaac De Moucheron (1667-1744): His Life and Works with a Catalogue Raisonné of His Drawings, Watercolours, Paintings, and Etchings. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996.
• Alsteens, Stijn and Hans Buijs. Paysages de Frances: dessinés par Lambert Doomer et les artistes hollandaise et flamands des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Fondation Custodia, 2008

View the collection record

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