Landscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distance

Landscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distance

Anton Crussens

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amateur artist Anthonie Crussens was active in Brussels from 1652 to 1665. He specialized in drawings in brown ink on vellum with a technique that evokes the tapering, cross-hatched lines of engravings.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distanceLandscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distanceLandscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distanceLandscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distanceLandscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distance

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.