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Pieter Bruegel, the Elder

Breda, ca. 1525 - Brussels, 1569

The Parable of Wise and Foolish Virgins

Date	ca. 1560-61
Materials and Techniques	engraving
Size（cm）	22.3 x 29.0
Inscriptions	Inscribed lower left: H. cock excu; lower right: BRVEGEL INV; in lower margin: DATE NOBIS DE OLEO VESTRO, QVIA LAMPADES NOSTRÆ EXTINGVNTVR. NEQVAM, NEQVANDO NON SUFFICIAT NOBIS ET VOBIS math. 25
Standard ref.	Van Bastelaer 123
Category	Prints
Collection Number	G.1984-0096

Provenance

Christies' Auction, 1984, London; Galeria Grafica, Tokyo.

Exhibition History

2011: Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2011 - 12 June 2011, cat. no. 46
2018: [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Examining Western Prints – Engraving: Intricate Realms Conjured by the Burin, National Museum of Western Art, Prints and Drawings Gallery, Tokyo, 19 June 2018 - 24 September 2018, cat. no. 16
2023: Villains in the Frame, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 June 2023 - 3 September 2023, cat. no. 3

Bibliography

1906: Niederländisches Künstler - Lexikon. Amsterdam, 1906 - 11, Brueghel. stiche, 27.
1908: Van Bastelaer, René. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'Ancien. Bruxelles, 1908, no. 123.
1954: Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. vol III, Boekhorst-Brueghel. Amsterdam, 1954, p. 274, no. 123.
1956: Stridbeck, Carl Gustaf. Bruegelstudien: Untersuchungen zu den ikonologischen Problemen dei Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. sowie dessen Beziehungen zum niederländischen Romanismus. Stockholm, 1956, pp. 255-256, Verzeichnis der Abbildungen. p. 378, no. 78.
1967: Oberhuber, Konrad. Zwischen Renaissance und Barock: Das Zeitalter von Bruegel und Bellange (exh. cat.). Albertina, Wien, 9 November 1967 – 18 Februar 1968, no. 56.
1974: Lebeer, Louis; Hijikata, Teiichi. Complete Collection of Bruegel's Print Works (in Japanese). Tokyo, 1974, no. 39.
1977: Riggs, Timothy A. Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher. New York & London, 1977, p. 319, on. 31.
1987: Dolders, Arno. The Illustrated Bartsch. vol. 56, Netherlandish Artist. New York, 1987, p. 131, on. 038.
1988: Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 19 (1984), 1988, Kofuku, Akira. New Acquisitions 1984, p. 25, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1984. pp. 94-95, repr.
1988: Marijnissen, Roger H. avec Ruyffelaere, P. Van Calster, P. Meij, A. W. F. M. Buruegel : Tout l’œuvre peint et dessiné. Paris, 1988, p. 160
1989: The Prints of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (exh. cat.). Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, 7 January - 26 February; Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, 4 March - 9 April; Mie Prefecrural Art Museum, 15 April - 14 May; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, 20 May - 18 June. Tokyo, The Tokyo Shimbun, c1989, cat. no. 39
1992: Van Bastelaer, René. The Prints of Peter Bruegel the Elder. San Francisco, 1992, no.123.
2001: Müller, Jürgen. Pieter Bruegel invenit: Das druckgraphische Werk. Hamburg, 2001, no.39
2006: The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ouderkerk aan den Ĳssel, 2006, p.13, no.4.

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