Portrait of Pieter Bruegel
Maker
(artist)
1525-1569
(engraver)
1553-1619
(publisher)
1571-1633
(publisher)
ca.1510-1570 (Life dates)
(author)
1532-1599
1525-1569
(engraver)
1553-1619
(publisher)
1571-1633
(publisher)
ca.1510-1570 (Life dates)
(author)
1532-1599
Title
Portrait of Pieter Bruegel
Date of Production
1572
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2952.19
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, black ink: "PETRO BRVEGEL, PICTORI. // Quis nouus hic Hieronymus Orbi // Macte animo, Petre, mactus vt arte. // Boschius? ingeniosa magistri // Namque tuo, veterisque magnistri // Somnia peniculoque, styloque // Ridiculo, salibusque referto // Tanta imitarier arte peritus, // In graphices genere inclyta laudum // Vt superet tamen interim et illum? Praemia vbique, et ab omnibus vllo // Artifice haud leuiora mereris.". Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "1510 Breueghel. "The Old." 1570"; lower left edge, graphite: "For codex portraits pub, Dutch & Flemish painters // H. Cock 1572 - Plate 19 // ed?".
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