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Currently not on display

Philips Galle

Haarlem, 1537 - Antwerp, 1612

Pieter Bruegel, the Elder

Breda, ca. 1525 - Brussels, 1569

The Death of the Virgin (after Pieter Bruegel)

Date 1574
Materials and Techniques engraving
Watermarks Briquet 13203(?)
Size(cm) 30.6 x 41.8
Inscriptions Inscribed in the lower margin
Standard ref. The New Hollstein, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, p.25, no.9 i/ii
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2002-0003

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2002.

Exhibition History

2016
Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 9 July 2016 - 19 September 2016, cat. no. 20

Bibliography

1906
Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederländisches Künstler - Lexikon. Amsterdam, 1906 – 11, Brueghel. stiche. no. 6, Gall. no. 6.
1908
Van Bastelaer, René. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'Ancien. Bruxelles, 1908, no. 116.
1954
Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. vol III, Boekhorst-Brueghel. Amsterdam, 1954, p. 268, no. 116.
1987
Dolders, Arno. The Illustrated Bartsch. vol. 56, Netherlandish Artist. New York, 1987, p. 212, no. 060.
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. 236
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. 86.
1992
Van Bastelaer, René. The Prints of Peter Bruegel the Elder. San Francisco, 1992, no. 116.
1996
Melion, Walter S. Ego enim quasi obdormivi: salvation and blessed sleep in Philip Galle's Death of the Virgin after Pieter Bruegel. Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 47, 1996, pp. 14-53.
2001
Müller, Jürgen. Pieter Bruegel invenit: Das druckgraphische Werk. Hamburg, 2001, no. 86.
2004
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 37 (Apr. 2002-Mar. 2003), 2004, List of New Acquisitions. p. 38.
2006
The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 2006 , p.25, no.9 i/ii.
2007
Sellink, Manfred. Bruegel: The Complete Paintings, Drawings and Prints. [Ghent], Ludion, 2007, p. 195, no. 129.
2010
The World of Bruegel in Black and White from the Collection of the Royal Library of Belgium. The Bunkamura Museum of Art, [Tokyo], 17 July - 29 August 2010; Niigata City Art Museum, 4 September - 17 October 2010; Museum[Eki]KYOTO, 22 October - 23 November 2010. [Tokyo], Bunkamura; Yomiuri Shimbun, 2010 , pp. 88-89, no. 34.
2016
Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka; Iizuka, Takashi; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; The Western Art Foundation, 2016, pp. 60-62, 277, cat. no. 20, col. repr.

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