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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints

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Mountain Landscape with River and Travelers, 1553
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and red-brown ink, with light wash
The British Museum, London


Wooded Landscape with a Distant View toward the Sea, 1554
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink with brown wash, white gouache, and black chalk on blue paper
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, The Maida and George Abrams Collection


Stream with an Angler, ca. 1554
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink
Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Cabinet des Estampes, Brussels


Pagus Nemorosus (Wooded Region), ca. 1555–56
Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Etching with engraving; first state of two
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Helen and Alice Coburn Fund, 1934


The Ass at School, 1556
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brush and gray-black and gray-brown ink; contours indented for transfer
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett


Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1556
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brush and gray and black ink; contours indented for transfer
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


The Seven Deadly Sins, or The Vices: Desidia (Sloth), 1557
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and gray-brown ink; contours indented for transfer
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


Desidia (Sloth), 1558
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Engraving; only state
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.72.34)


Everyman, 1558
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; contours indented for transfer
The British Museum, London


The Alchemist, 1558?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; contours indented
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett


The Seven Virtues: Spes (Hope), 1559
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and dark brown ink; contours indented for transfer
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett


Journey to Emmaus, ca. 1560
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and gray and brown-gray ink, reworked in pen and brown-gray ink by a later hand, traces of framing line in brown ink at upper left and lower left
On permanent loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam


Four-Master and Two Three-Masters Anchored near a Fortified Island with a Lighthouse, ca. 1561–62
Frans Huys after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Engraving and etching; first state of two
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958 (59.534.23)


The Painter and the Connoisseur, mid-1560s
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and gray-brown ink, with touches of light brown ink
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


Spring, 1565
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; contours indented for transfer
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


The Beekeepers, ca. 1567–68
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett


The Battle about Money, after 1570
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Engraving; second state of four
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.72.40)





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