A farm among trees

Part of a group of drawings of similar technique, style, and subject which have been recently attributed to Paulus van Hillegaert, on the basis of an old inscription which appears on the verso of one of the sheets from the group in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Die Niederländischen Meister, Berlin, 1930, I, p. 152). Drawings from the group have also been sometimes attributed to Jan Wildens (1584/86-1653), an artist from Antwerp. The present drawing can especially be compared to two drawings in the National Gallery, Scotland (inv. D4848; K. Andrews, Catalogue of Netherlandish drawings in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1985, nos. 706 and 707, as by Wildens), a Landscape with a castle behind a cornfield formerly in the Unicorno collection (Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 19 May 2004, lot 41, as Wildens) and an Italianate landscape in the Müller collection (H. Bevers, Niederländische Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik: Die Sammlung Christoph Müller im Berliner Kupferstischkabinett, exhib. cat. Berlin, 2008, no. 79, as Hillegaert).