River Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

c. 1595

Simon Novellanus

Artist, German, active c. 1560/1590

Joris Hoefnagel

Publisher, Flemish, 1542 - 1600

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 27.5 × 33.8 cm (10 13/16 × 13 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.420

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. A5, State i/ii


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. A5, state i/ii.

1996

  • Serebrennikov, Nina Eugenia. "Imitating Nature / Imitiating Bruegel," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 47, 1996, pp. 223-246.

Inscriptions

in margin below image, in plate: Inter utrumque vola, medio tutissimus ibis. (Fly in between, in the middle you will go most safely) // Qui fuit ut tutas agitaret Daedalus alas? / Icarus immensas nomine signet aquas? // Nempe quod hic alté demissius ille volabat: / Nam pennas ambo non nabuere suas. (How is it possible that Daedalus could safely move his wings back and forth? [How did it happen that] Icarus gave his name to the vast waters? This was of course because he flew high and the other lower; for neither had feathers of his own.) // Petrus Breugel fec: Romae A[nn]o 1553. / Excud: Houf: cum prae: Caes:

Wikidata ID

Q65512051


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