Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome, 1553

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall: 23.2 x 33.6 cm (9 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
support: 33.1 x 42 cm (13 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Munz 1961, no. 22

Accession Number

1972.47.1

Artists / Makers

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: [1]553; lower center: BRUEGEL; in later hand, lower center on mount: P.Brueghel, d A; vertical along left edge verso: L.NK; lower right verso: Pierre Breughel, Dit le vieux; lower left verso: 170D / CS

Provenance

Friedrich Wilhelm Klever [1846 - 1930], Cologne? (his sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 18-19 January 1892, no. 11). Prince of Liechtenstein; Dr. Felix Somary, Zurich; (William H. Schab, New York); purchased 1972 by NGA.

Associated Names

Klever, Friedrich Wilhelm
Lempertz, Kunsthaus
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 39.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 29.

1988: The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no. 47, fig. 103.

1999: Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1999-2000, no. 110, repro.

2001: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001, no. 11, repro.

2018: Bruegel: The Hand of the Master, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2018-2019, no. 4.

Bibliography

1961: Munz, Ludwig. Pieter Bruegel, The Drawings. Complete ed. Translated from the German by Luke Hermann. Greenwich, CT: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1961.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 661, no. 1043, color repro.