DETAILS
- Artist
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Date
- 1545
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, laid down on card
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 36 × 24.4 cm (14 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 47.8 × 36.5 cm (18 7/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Flanders
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
THE ARTIST
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1525–1569 · Duchy of BrabantPieter Bruegel the Elder pioneered large-scale landscapes and peasant scenes, profoundly influencing Dutch Golden Age painting.
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Further Works by Elder
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The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
1559
The Tower of Babel
1563
Large Alpine Landscape
1550 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Kermis at Hoboken
1554 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Descent of Christ Into Limbo
1556 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Ass at School
1557 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Thin Kitchen
1563 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Land of Cockaigne
1570 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Arrival in Bethlehem
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The Meeting of Jacob and Rebecca, and Isaac Blessing Jacob from The Story of Jacob
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Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 14 (recto)
Matteo Pagano · 1546 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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