The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa

1570

Pieter van der Heyden

Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.2 × 29.1 cm (8 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1972.29.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 45, State i/iv

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 107.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

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. 45, state i/iv.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; lower right, in image, in plate: H. cock. excud. 1570.; lower right, in cartouche, in plate: Bruegel. inuentor.; in lower margin, in plate: MOPSO NISA DATVR, QVID NON SPEREMVS AMANTES. (Mopsus marries Nisa, what may not we lovers hope for.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 246.]

Wikidata ID

Q65576269

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