Alpine Landscape

Artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, died 1569)

Artist After Jan van Duetecum (Flemish, ca. 1554 - 1593)

Artist After Lucas van Duetecum (Flemish, active 1554 - 1572)

Dateca. 1555-1556

MediumEtching and engraving

DimensionsImage: 11 13/16 x 16 13/16 inches (30 x 42.72 cm)
Mat: 16 x 21 1/4 inches (40.64 x 53.98 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: Nelson Gallery Foundation

Object numberF90-21

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Exhibition History

Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, May 23-July 25, 1993, no cat., as Alpine Landscape.

Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat., as Alpine Landscape.

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 15-October 26, 2008, no cat., as Alpine Landscape.

Landscapes East/Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 27, 2011-April 15, 2012, no cat., as Alpine Landscape.

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 18, 2013-June 22, 2014, no cat., as Alpine Landscape.

Gallery Label

Brueghel's landscape depicts the wonders of the Alps, which in the 16th century were a formidable barrier between northern and southern Europe. Panoramic views like this with rocks towering above valleys were a popular formula to evoke the terrifying grandeur of nature at a time when interest in geology was increasing. Brueghel's view is probably imaginary, even though the artist had crossed the Alps.

Provenance

With Hill-Stone, Inc.,. New York, by August 20, 1990;

Purchased from Hill-Stone, Inc., by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1990.

Published References

René van Bastelaer, Peter Bruegel l'ancien, son œuvre et son temps (Brussels: G. Van Oest et Cie, 1908), no. 9.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts Ca. 1450-1700, vol. 3, Boekhorst-Bruegel (Amsterdam: 1950), no. 6.

Louis Lebeer, Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Bruegel l’ancien (Brussels: Bibliotheque Royale Albert 1er, 1969), no. 4.

Timothy A. Riggs, The Print Council Index to Œuvres-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists (Milwood, NY: Kraus, 1983), no. 28:4.

David Freedberg, The Prints of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1989), no. 4.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 154, (repro.), erroneously as by Jan or Johannes and Lucas Duetecum (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder), as Alpine Landscape.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 52-54, 288-89, (repro.), as Alpine Landscape.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 62, (repro.), erroneously as by Jan or Johannes and Lucas Duetecum (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder), as Alpine Landscape.

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