Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mountain Landscape with River and Travelers

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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; 9 x 13 1/4 in. (22.8 x 33.8 cm)
The British Museum, London

Wooded Landscape with a Distant View toward the Sea

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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; 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (26 x 34.4 cm)
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, The Maida and George Abrams Collection

Stream with an Angler

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Stream with an Angler, ca. 1554
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; 13 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (34.5 x 23.5 cm)
Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Cabinet des Estampes, Brussels

Pagus Nemorosus (Wooded Region)

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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; 12 5/8 x 16 3/4 in. (32.1 x 42.5 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Helen and Alice Coburn Fund, 1934

The Ass at School

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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; 9 1/8 x 11 7/8 in. (23.2 x 30.2 cm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Big Fish Eat Little Fish

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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; 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (21.6 x 30.7 cm)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

The Seven Deadly Sins, or The Vices: Desidia (Sloth)

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Desidia (Sloth), 1558

Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)

Engraving; only state; 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (22.5 x 29.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.72.34)

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; 8 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (21.4 x 29.6 cm)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

The Seven Deadly Sins, or The Vices: Desidia (Sloth)

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Desidia (Sloth), 1558

Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)

Engraving; only state; 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (22.5 x 29.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.72.34)

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; 8 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (21.4 x 29.6 cm)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Everyman

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Everyman, 1558
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; contours indented for transfer; 8 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (20.8 x 24.1 cm)
The British Museum, London

The Alchemist

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The Alchemist, 1558?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; contours indented; 12 1/8 x 17 7/8 in. (30.8 x 45.3 cm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

The Seven Virtues: Spes (Hope)

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The Seven Virtues: Spes (Hope), 1559
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and dark brown ink; contours indented for transfer; 8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in. (22.4 x 29.5 cm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Journey to Emmaus

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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; 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 in. (24.4 x 37.3 cm)
On permanent loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Four-Master and Two Three-Masters Anchored near a Fortified Island with a Lighthouse

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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; 8 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. (22.2 x 28.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958 (59.534.23)

The Painter and the Connoisseur

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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; 10 x 8 1/2 in. (25.5 x 21.5 cm)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Spring

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Spring, 1565
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; contours indented for transfer; 8 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (22 x 29 cm)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

The Beekeepers

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The Beekeepers, ca. 1567–68
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Pen and brown ink; 8 x 12 1/8 in. (20.3 x 30.9 cm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

The Battle about Money

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The Battle about Money, after 1570
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525/30–1569)
Engraving; second state of four; 9 1/4 x 12 in. (23.6 x 30.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.72.40)