{"data": {"id": 124115, "accession_number": "1945.114", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length, c. 1600. Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576\u20131639). Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.114", "current_location": null, "title": "Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length", "creation_date": "c. 1600", "creation_date_earliest": 1595, "creation_date_latest": 1605, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Flanders"], "technique": "Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink", "support_materials": [{"description": "beige(1) laid paper", "watermarks": []}], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - Flemish", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"sheet": {"height": 0.151, "height_inch": 5, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "width": 0.188, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "by artist, upper left, in brown ink: omberne / hoet ; by artist, upper right, in brown ink: gr[y?]sse hoed [=gray hat]; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, left center, in brown ink: [br\u00fainockker?] rock [=brown-ochre mantel]; by artist, center, in brown ink: zwartter rock [=black mantel]; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: [nart?] het leuen [=taken from life]; VERSO, lower left, in blue pencil: WCA805 / WCA803", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301184, "title": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition", "description": "<i>Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).", "opening_date": "1958-03-03T05:00:00"}, {"id": 301689, "title": "Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries", "description": "<i>Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).", "opening_date": "1960-05-18T04:00:00"}, {"id": 518658, "title": "Prints and Drawings by Pieter Bruegel", "description": "<i>Prints and Drawings by Pieter Bruegel</i>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (March 23-May 7, 1961).", "opening_date": "1961-03-23T05:00:00"}, {"id": 304645, "title": "Drawings", "description": "<i>Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).", "opening_date": "1963-01-11T05:00:00"}, {"id": 350002, "title": "Old Master Drawings", "description": "<i>Old Master Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).", "opening_date": "1964-03-10T05:00:00"}, {"id": 350931, "title": "Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands", "description": "<i>Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).", "opening_date": "1965-01-01T05:00:00"}, {"id": 350269, "title": "Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection", "description": "<i>Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).", "opening_date": "1965-05-06T04:00:00"}, {"id": 350752, "title": "Old Master Prints and Drawings", "description": "<i>Old Master Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).", "opening_date": "1966-07-29T04:00:00"}, {"id": 351065, "title": "Drawings from the Museum Collection", "description": "<i>Drawings from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).", "opening_date": "1967-06-09T04:00:00"}, {"id": 310280, "title": "Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection", "description": "<i>Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).", "opening_date": "1989-10-10T04:00:00"}, {"id": 440585, "title": "Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel", "description": "<i>Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 9, 2022-January 8, 2023).", "opening_date": "2022-10-09T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Oscar Huldschinsky, Berlin", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1931", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "his sale, Paul Graupe, Berlin, November 3, 1931, no. 23", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1931", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "Karl Rudolf (?), Berlin", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "c. 1931-?", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "David Birnbaum, New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-?", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "with Knoedler & Co., New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1945", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1945-", "sortorder": 6}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "These three drawings, which depict seated peasants at a market in the city and a team of horses led by a herder on horseback, are part of a group of approximately 80 observational drawings by Savery. His farmers, market vendors, and other everyday people are never posed and rarely glance at the viewer. Savery marked each drawing with detailed instructions regarding the colors to be used later and the words <em>naer het leven</em> (from the life). The works were made in Prague when Savery was employed at the court of the great patron and art collector Emperor Rudolf II, demonstrating that interest in peasant life extended even to the highest echelons of society.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79901774"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1945.114-two-bohemian-peasant"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"A Drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>33, no. 4 (April 1946): 44-46.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 44; Mentioned: p. 45", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141272"}, {"citation": "De Tolnay, Charles. <em>The Drawings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, With a Critical Catalogue. </em>London: A. Zwemmer, 1952.", "page_number": "84, no. 112 (as Bruegel)", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 585", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n109"}, {"citation": "Mu\u0308nz, Ludwig, and Luke Herrmann. <em>Bruegel: the drawings.</em> London: Phaidon, 1961.", "page_number": "223-224, no. 120 (as Bruegel)", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n129"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n129"}, {"citation": "Spicer, Joaneath Ann, \u201cThe \u2018Naer Het Leven\u2019 Drawings: By Pieter Bruegel or Roelandt Savery?\u201d Master Drawings Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1970): pp. 3-30, 63-82.", "page_number": "pp. 6, 15, 25; pl. 5", "url": null}, {"citation": "Kuznet\ufe20s\ufe21ov, I\ufe20U\ufe21, and T. A. T\ufe20S\ufe21eshkovskai\ufe20a\ufe21.<em> Dessins flamands et hollandais du dix-septie\u0300me sie\u0300cle. Collections de l'Ermitage, Leningrad et du Muse\u0301e Pouchkine, Moscou. </em>Exh. cat. Bruxelles: Bibliothe\u0300que royale Albert Ier, boulevard de l'Empereur, 3, 1972.", "page_number": "216-17 (as Bruegel)", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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Olszewski. <em>Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus</em>. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.", "page_number": "61-63, no. 38", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schro\u0308der, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. 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