id: 107226 accession number: 1925.1218 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1218 updated: 2022-01-04 15:03:06.694000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1606 creation date earliest: 1606 creation date latest: 1606 current location: creditline: Gift of P. & D. Colnaghi Co. copyright: --- culture: Flanders, 16th century technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 279 (XXI.58) --- CREATORS * Aegidius Sadeler (Flemish, c. 1570-1629) - artist * Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546-1611) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 30.1 x 20.4 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.) state of the work: ii/v edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(1) laid paper watermarks: 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 . translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints opening date: 1990-08-07T04:00:00 Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints. 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 Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97. "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Around 1600, three decades after the death of artist Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-1569), a renewed interest in his work sparked the so-called Bruegel Renaissance. Admired for his scenes of everyday life and his realistic landscapes, he was highly praised for faithfully following nature. Appropriately, the inscription on Sadeler's print is a lengthy discussion about the imitation of nature, a matter of great interest to artists at the time. Bruegel is surrounded by Minerva and Mercury (who here personify Art and Eloquence, respectively) and a composite figure of Fortune and Fame. The cherub bearing the skull and torch at bottom is probably Thanatos, a classical symbol of death. He bows to mourn the artist, but as the still-flaming torch indicates, Bruegel's genius and fame are immortal. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1218/1925.1218_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1218/1925.1218_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1218/1925.1218_full.tif