# Wood near Schwalbach [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MIROU, Anton]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pen, brown ink, 135 x 160 mm ## Commentary Mirou executed several pen and ink drawings inspired by Schwalbach and its environment. The dates recorded on these sheets depicting peasants' houses, village streets, and the fringes of forests suggest that Mirou visited the place several times between 1609 and 1618. He might have gone there partly for health reasons as well, since Schwalbach had been a popular resort well known for its medical spring. The drawings were presumably commissioned by the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry \(1561-1623\). In the Wood near Schwalbach the village hidden in the distance can only be discerned through the pairs of trees outside of the forest. The drawing primarily focuses on rendering the curvatures of the older and younger trees and their foliages intertwining at the top of the sheet. ## Related artworks - [Hollow Road]() - [House with Belfry in Heffebach]() - [Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt]() - [Landscape with Watermill, Castle, and Buildings]() - [River Landscape]() - [The Road from Schwalbach to Kemel]() - [The Yard of the Old Well-Digger]() - [View of Schwalbach]() - [Wooded River Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()