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Portrait of Pieter Bruegel

Maker

(artist)
1525-1569

(engraver)
1553-1619

(publisher)
1571-1633

(author)
1532-1599

Title

Portrait of Pieter Bruegel

Date of Production

1572

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 12.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2952.20

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: upper central edge within image, black ink: "Objit Bruxellis anno 1570. // 19."; lower centre, black ink: "19 PETRO BRVEGEL, PICTORI. // Quis nouus hic Hieronymus Orbi // Macte animo, Petre, mactus vt arte. // Boschius? ingeniosa magistri // Namque tuo, veterisque magistri // 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 // Artidice haud leuiora mereris. // Th. Galle excud. Dom. Lampsonius.".

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