Summer

c. 1570

Pieter van der Heyden

Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.7 x 28.6 cm (8 15/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 28.4 x 37.4 cm (11 3/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.406

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 30, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1996

  • Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996, as.

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. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 30, state i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower right, in image, in plate: Cock excu. Bruegel Inuet; in lower margin, at left, in plate: Iulius, Augustus, nec non et Iunius Aestas. (July, August, and also June make Summer.); in lower margin, in central cartouche, in plate: AESTAS / Adoles centie imago (Summer, image of youth); in lower margin, at right, in plate: Frugiferas aruis fert Aestas torrida messeis. (Hot summer brings bounteous harvest to the fields.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 243.]

Wikidata ID

Q65511672

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