id:			168193
accession number:	2009.80
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.80
updated:		2019-11-18 12:33:04.848000

The Rabbit Hunt, 1560. Pieter Bruegel (Flemish, 1527/8-1569). Etching; sheet: 24.3 x 31.8 cm (9 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.); platemark: 22.1 x 29 cm (8 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.80

title:				The Rabbit Hunt
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creation date:			1560
creation date earliest:		1560
creation date latest:		1560
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Flanders, 16th century
technique:	etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Orenstein 82, Sellink 96, New Hollstein 1

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CREATORS

* Pieter Bruegel (Flemish, 1527/8-1569)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 24.3 x 31.8 cm (9 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Platemark: 22.1 x 29 cm (8 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
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	description:	light weight antique laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Inscribed in the plate, BRUEGEL, lower left and upper right H Cock excu.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-03-09T00:00:00
	<i>Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art" (Mar. 9, 2014-Jun. 8, 2014)

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, Antwerp in 1987 sold to Albert van Loock, Brussels who sold to Theodore Donson, NY, who sold to Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, UK
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wall description: 
In his only original print, <em>The Rabbit Hunt</em>, Bruegel replicated the graphic vocabulary of dots and dashes seen in his most beautiful pen-and-ink drawings to evoke a vivid sense of atmosphere and light and create a deep recession into space. His representations of nature, including majestic mountains—an unusual and popular subject in the flat Netherlands—exemplify an unprecedented naturalism. What at first appears to be a pleasant landscape peopled by a hunter searching for hares actually illustrates an ominous and cautionary moral tale. Aiming his crossbow at the two hares, the hunter becomes the unwitting target of a second man carrying a lance; the hunter becomes the hunted. The rotting stump in the foreground intensifies the sense of foreboding.
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