id:			107226
accession number:	1925.1218
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1218
updated:		2025-02-08 23:37:23.622000

Peter Bruegel, 1606. Aegidius Sadeler (Flemish, c. 1570–1629), after Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546–1611). Engraving; sheet: 30.1 x 20.4 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of P. & D. Colnaghi Co. 1925.1218

title:				Peter Bruegel
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creation date:			1606
creation date earliest:		1606
creation date latest:		1606
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creditline:			Gift of P. & D. Colnaghi Co.
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culture:	Flanders
technique:	engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Engraving
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 279 (XXI.58)

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CREATORS

* Aegidius Sadeler (Flemish, c. 1570–1629)  - artist

* Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546–1611)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 30.1 x 20.4 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
state of the work:	ii/v
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support materials:

	description:	cream(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	around portrait, in plate:  PETRVS BRVEGEL EX AMBIVARITIS BELGA PICTOR AEVI HVIVS INTER PRINCIPES ; lower left, in plate: Bar. Sprangers Inventor. ; across bottom, in plate: Ars Naturam vicerat, nisi et Ars per Naturam esset: Natura Artem æternarat, nisi et Naturæ nihil æterni esset. Alumnus Altricem / æmulatus, quâ licuit adsecutus est: Altrix Aemulum alumnata, quâ datum prosecuta est. apagè liuor, Artem Naturæ, Naturæ foedus / sociat: apagè dolor, Naturam Arti, artis foetus sufficit. Viuit in Arte Natura, quam Patris manus expressit: Viuit in Naturâ Arts, quam Fili / Genius adsequitur. illam, Naturâ ambiente Virgo Tritonis, Heroum choris inseruit: hunc, Arte prensante Majânatus Olifer, deses flumen / redixit. redáccende facem Lucifuge, inique facis nisi Patrem in Filio noscis: adtolle tubam Terrigena, nihil agis nisi uterque tibi ßuperstes est / Patrem Filio, humc in illo, sibi utrumque seculis; Artis, Naturæ / Posteritatis, cultor, admirator, amator Sac. Cæs. Mai. sculptor / Egidius Sadeler, exhibet. [infinity symbol] . IC[reversed]C . VI .
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints
	opening date:   1990-08-07T04:00:00
	<i>Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

	title:		Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620
	opening date:   1997-08-03T00:00:00
	<i>Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97.  "Mannerism:  Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620."', 'opening_date': '1997-08-03T00:00:00'}

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