The Rabbit Hunters

1560

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Associated Names
Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Artist, Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

The image shows a landscape with a city in the distance, a castle on a cliff, fields, forests, and two figures with a dog hunting. There are sailboats on water and houses on farmland. The style is detailed with etching lines in sepia tones.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.4 x 29.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1972.16.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 1, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 106.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 34.

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

Bibliography

1908

  • Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.

1993

  • Wood, Christopher S. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. London, 1993: fig. 202.

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1, state only.

Inscriptions

lower left, in plate: BRVEGEL 1560; upper right, in plate: H. Cock excu.

Wikidata ID

Q65576227

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