Spring

published 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

  • Accession

    1980.45.235

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 29, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1990

  • Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 27, repro.

Bibliography

1908

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

1990

  • Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 27.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 29, state i/iii.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: Bruegel inuet.; lower right, in image, in plate: H. Cock. excud. 1570; lower right, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; in lower margin, at left, in plate: Martius, Aprilis, Maius, sunt tempora ueris. (March, April, and May are the months of Spring.); in lower margin, in central cartouche, in plate: VER / Pueritie compar (Spring, similar to childhood); in lower margin, at right, in plate: Vere Venus gaudet florentibus aurea sertis. (In Spring golden Venus rejoices in garlands of blooming flowers.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 236.]

Wikidata ID

Q65576274

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