Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Bruegel, Pieter the Elder

Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

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Flemish painter (1526–1569)

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Drawn with delicate lines in brown ink on vertically oriented, dark tan-colored paper, a man playing a bagpipe sits in a stool, which he tips to one side. The man has a round face with oversized, puffed cheeks. His eyes are squinted shut, and his features are pressed into the middle of his face. He has wispy, chin-length hair and wears a shallow, floppy cap. He blows hard into the mouthpiece of the bagpipe, which he holds between both arms as he fingers the recorder-like chanter. The man wears a baggy-sleeved jacket over tight-fitting pants and slippers. His knees are splayed wide, and a prominent codpiece is framed by the jacket’s quarters, the short front flaps. The three-legged stool has a triangular seat. The man tips the stool up on two legs, angled to our left. The paper is darkened in some areas and chipped around the edges. The artist signed the drawing near the lower left corner, “P. Bréugel f.”
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Bagpipe Player, c. 1562, pen and brown ink, with some incised lines, on laid paper; laid down, Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner, 2016.127.2

The Bagpipe Player

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · c. 1562 · pen and brown ink, with some incised lines, on laid paper; laid down ·  Accession ID  2016.127.2

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Cock, The Rabbit Hunters, 1560, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.16.1

The Rabbit Hunters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Cock · 1560 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1972.16.1

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome, 1553, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.47.1

Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1553 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1972.47.1

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasants and Cattle near a Farmhouse, c. 1553/1554, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.21.1

Peasants and Cattle near a Farmhouse

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · c. 1553/1554 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1973.21.1

Bibliography

1956

  • Stridbeck, Carl Gustaf. Bruegelstudien. Stockholm, 1956.

1959

  • Grossmann, Fritz. "Bruegel, Pieter the Elder." Encyclopedia of World Art. 17+ vols. London, 1959+: 2(1960):cols. 632-651.

1973

  • Grossmann, Fritz. Pieter Bruegel. Complete Edition of the Paintings. London, 1973.

1980

  • Bruegel. Une dynastie de peintres. Exh. cat. Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1980.

1986

  • Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1986: 27-28.