The Man with the Moneybag and His Flatterers

Johann Theodor de Bry after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Associated Names
Johann Theodor de Bry

Artist, Flemish, 1561 - 1623

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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

This print features a large creature with a humanoid upper body and a human face with a headscarf. They are sitting down and leaning forward, with their body facing away from us, towards the left, and their head turned over their shoulder to look towards us with a somber expression. Near the bottom-right corner, small people crawl on their hands and knees on the ground, heading into a square opening in the creature's lower body, between their hips and lower back. The large creature’s arms are on the left, holding a long back with coins spilling out of it on the ground. At the bottom of the print is a line of Latin text. The background is minimal, with low hills and an empty sky decorated with cross-hatching.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.410

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. A8, copy, state unidentified


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. A8, copy, state unidentified.

Inscriptions

lower margin, in plate: TV CALIGAS INFLARE MEAS, EGO CVDERE NVMMOS

Wikidata ID

Q65509997

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