Inscription
lower center, in image, in plate: H. COCK EXCVDEBAT; lower right, in cartouche, in plate: BRVEGEL INVENTOR; at right, on tavern sign, in plate: dit is in die kro[on] (this is the crown); at right, on banner, in plate: laet die boeren haer kermis houuen (let the peasants have their kermis) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 196.]
Provenance
William H. Schab; purchased 1959 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1964.
Exhibition History
- 1982
- Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 54, repro.
- 1996
- Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.
Bibliography
- 1908
- Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.
- 1993
- The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (van Doetecum family, Henk Nalis author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 219, state i/iii.
- 2018
- Oberthaler, Elke, et al. Breugel: The Hand of the Master. Exh cat, Vienna, 2018: 121, fig. 1
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