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Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley

Jan Duetecum, Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Artist Hieronymus Cock, Publisher
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Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley

ca. 1555

Jan Duetecum (Artist) Dutch Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Artist) Netherlandish, 1525-1569 Hieronymus Cock (Publisher) Netherlandish, 1517 or 1518-1570

Etching and engraving in ink on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 12 5/8 × 16 7/8 inches (32.1 × 42.9 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

40.23

Public Domain

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Inscribed, in plate, lower left of image: brueghel Inuentor | -h-cock excude- Inscribed, lower right of image: brue. inu

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(Weyhe Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bastelaer, Rene van. Les Estampes de Peter Brvefel l'Ancien. Brussels, 1908.

Riggs, Timothy A. Hieronymus Cock (1510-1570): Print-Marker and Publisher in Antwerp at the Sign of the Four Winds. New York and London, 1977, p. 318, no. 28.4.

Herendeen, Wyman H. From Landscape to Literature: The River and the Myth of Geography. Pittsburgh, 1986, (fig. 15), p. 178.

Hollstein, vol. III. p. 260, no. 9 [under Brueghel].

From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 10.

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Jan Duetecum; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley, ca. 1555, etching and engraving in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 40.23.

Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley
Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley