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From Bruegel to Rubens: Netherlandish and Flemish Drawings
February 11 through April 30, 2000
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525–1569)
Netherlandish
Ice-skaters Near the Saint George Gate, Antwerp
Pen and brown ink, traced for transfer with a stylus
8 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (213 x 298 mm)
Private collection, New York Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617)
Netherlandish
Young Man Holding a Skull and a Tulip
Pen and brown ink. Signed and dated with monogram: HG / 1614. Lettered in pen and brown ink by the artist, QVIS EVADET / NEMO
18 1/8 x 13 15/16 inches (460 x 354 mm)
The Pierpont Morgan Library
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910; III, 145 Jacob Hoefnagel (1575–ca. 1630)
Flemish
Orpheus and the Animals
Point of brush and watercolor and bodycolor on vellum
Signed and dated in gold, Ja: Houfnagl / 1613.
6 9/16 x 8 1/4 inches (166 x 210 mm)
The Pierpont Morgan Library
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978; 1998.22 Jan Cossiers (1600–1671)
Flemish
Portrait of the Artist's Son Guilliellemus
Black and red chalk, a few touches of white chalk; some lines strengthened with pen and brown ink. Numbered and inscribed, probably in the artist's hand, at upper left, in brown ink, 21; at upper right, Guilliellemus Cossiers.
10 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (268 x 183 mm)
The Pierpont Morgan Library
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910; I, 248 Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
Flemish
Angel Blowing a Trumpet, Facing Right
Black chalk, heightened with white, some lines accented in pen and black ink; squared for enlargement in black chalk
9 11/16 x 11 3/16 inches (245 x 285 mm)
The Pierpont Morgan Library
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910; I, 233 Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
Seated Nude Youth
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on light gray paper
19 11/16 x 11 3/4 inches (500 x 299 mm)
Gift of J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1924; I, 232
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