Peasants and Cattle near a Farmhouse

c. 1553/1554

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Artist, Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 23.5 x 34.3 cm (9 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.)
    support: 30.6 x 42 cm (12 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.21.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Munz 1961, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Day

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 40.

2001

  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001, no. 19, repro.

2018

  • Bruegel: The Hand of the Master, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2018-2019, no. 6.

Bibliography

1961

  • Munz, Ludwig. Pieter Bruegel, The Drawings. Complete ed. Translated from the German by Luke Hermann. Greenwich, CT: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1961.

1976

  • Gerszi, T., OH, 90 1976, 210-229, 23.

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, lower left verso in brown ink: Tiziano

Wikidata ID

Q64619645

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