Armed Three-Master with Daedalus and Icarus in the Sky

1565

Frans Huys after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Associated Names
Frans Huys

Artist, Flemish, 1522 - 1562

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Artist After, Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

The image shows a large sailing ship at sea, with the horizon placed low in the background. A smaller sailboat is visible on the right side of the horizon. The intricate engraving technique uses fine lines to depict the ship, sea, and sky in monochromatic shades of brown or sepia. The sea appears rough, with a sea creature on the right side, while the sky features a sun, mythological figures, and birds near a rocky shoreline.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    shee (trimmed within plate)t: 21.4 × 28.3 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.45.238

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 65, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

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. 65, state i/iii.

Inscriptions

lower left, in cartouche, in plate: .F.H. [artist's monogram] bruegel

Wikidata ID

Q65568460

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