Large Alpine Landscape

Pieter Bruegel the Elderca. 1555-1557

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

Details

Title: Large Alpine Landscape
Creator: After Pieter Bruegel I
Date Created: ca. 1555-1557
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate in image of a stone, lower right: “BRVEGHEL INVE[N] / •H•COCK excudeb.”
Print State: Only state
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds and Magdalena Wagner Fund, 2001
Materials & Techniques: Etching and engraving on laid paper. Watermark: No watermark
Keywords: landscapes (representations), mountains, valleys (landforms)
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Probably etched and engraved by one or both of the brothers Jan and Lucas van Doetecum (see Hollstein pp. xi–xiv for a summary of their work)
Bibliography: R. Van Bastelaer, Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l’ancien (Bruxelles, 1908), cat. no. 8, as after Pieter Bruegel; F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700 (Amsterdam), no. 15 (vol. 4), as published by Hieronymus Cock; A.J.J. Delen, Histoire de la gravure dans les anciens Pays-Bas et dans les provinces belges des origines jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Deuxième parte, le xvie siècle (Paris: Les gravers d’estampes, 1935), p. 62 and plate 25, as by Hieronymus Cock; H. Arthur Klein, Graphic Worlds of Peter Bruegel the Elder. Reproducing 63 Engravings and a Woodcut after Designs by Peter Bruegel the Elder (New York, 1962), no. 8; Konrad Oberhuber, Zwischen Renaissance und Barock. Das Zeitalter von Breughel und Bellange. Werke aus dem Besitz der Albertina” exhibition catalog (Vienna: Albertina) no. 40 and plate 7 (Die Kunst der Graphik, vol. 4); L. Lebeer, “Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l’ancien (Brussels, 1969), no. 13, reproduced, as by Hieronymus Cock; L. De Pauw-De Veen, Hieronymus Cock. Prentuitgever en graveur 1507–1570” exhibition catalog (Brussels: Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, 1970) no. 145; T.A. Riggs, “Hieronymus Cock (1510–1570). Printmaker and Publisher in Antwerp at the Sign of the Four Winds, dissertation (New Haven: Yale University, 1971; New York and London, 1977), no. 29, p. 319; Bruegel. Een dynastie van schilders [exhibition catalog] (Brussels: Paleis van de Schone Kunsten, 1976), no. 45, reproduced, as by Hieronymus Cock; T. Gerszi, Landschaftsdarstellung von Pieter Bruegel und Hercules Seghers, Pantheon, vol. 39 (1981), p. 135; Bruegels tid. Nederländsk konst 1540–1620 [exhibition catalog] (Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1984–85), no. 79; David Freedberg et al., The Prints of Pieter Bruegel the Elder [exhibition catalog] (Tokyo: Bridgestone Museum of Art, 1989), no. 13, reproduced; R. Van Bastelaer, The Prints of Peter Bruegel the Elder. Catalogue raisonné, new edition translated and revised by S. Fargo Gilchrist (San Francisco, 1992), no. 8; The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700. Part I, The Van Doetecum Family (Rotterdam, 1998), no. 22, reproduced, as by Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum.
Associated People: After Pieter Bruegel I (Dutch (Flemish), ca. 1525 - 1569)
Accession Number: 2001.17.1

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