Updated 26 June 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Pieter van der Heyden
Antwerp, c. 1530 - Berchem near Antwerp, c. 1572
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Breda, ca. 1525 - Brussels, 1569
The Battle for the Money (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
| Date | after 1570 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | engraving |
| Watermarks | Watermark: Letter of "P" in Gothic type and a clover |
| Size（cm） | 23.4 x 30.2 (image); 25.6 x 33.8 (sheet) |
| State | 2/IV |
| Inscriptions | Monogram of Pieter van der Heyden at bottom center; At bottom right: Aux quatre Vents; In lower right corner: P. Bruegel Inuet; In lower margin in Latin: Quid modo diuiti[a]e, quid fului vasta metallic // Congeries, nummis arca referta noui, // Illecebres inter tantas, atq[ue] agmina furum, // Inditium cunctis efferus vncus erit, // Preda facit furem, feruens mala cuncta ministrat // Impetus, et spolijs apta rapina feris.; Idem in Dutch: Wel aen ghij Spaerpotten, Tonnen, en Kisten. // Tis al om gelt en goet, dit striden en twisten. // Al seet men v ooc anders, willet niet ghelouen. // Daerom vuere wij den haec die ons noijt en miste, // Men soeckt wel actie om ons te uerdoouen, // Maer men souwer niet krijgen, waerder niet te roouen. |
| Standard ref. | Hollstein 146 II; New Hollstein 33 II |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.2012-0008 |
Exhibition History
- 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. 18
- 2024
- Fantastic Prints 1500-1650: Imperial Prague as a Crossroads of European Prints, Koriyama City Museum of Art, 9 November 2024 - 27 December 2024, cat. no. 54
Bibliography
- 1871
- Nagler, G. K. Die Monogrammisten, vol. 4. München, 1871, p. 552, 1771, 10.
- 1908
- Van Bastelaer, René. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'Ancien. Bruxelles, 1908, no. 146.
- 1954
- Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. vol III, Boekhorst-Brueghel. Amsterdam, 1954, p. 282, no. 146.
- 1967
- Oberhuber, Konrad. Zwischen Renaissance und Barock: Das Zeitalter von Bruegel und Bellange (exh. cat.). Albertina, Wien, 9 November 1967 – 18 Februar 1968, no. 61.
- 1970
- De Pauw-De Veen, Lydia. Hieronymus Cock: Prentenuitgever en graveur 1507?-1570, exh. cat. Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, Brussels, 1970, no. 113.
- 1977
- Riggs, Timothy A. Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher. New York & London, 1977, p. 322, on. 42.
- 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. 204
- 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. 54.
- 1992
- Van Bastelaer, René. The Prints of Peter Bruegel the Elder. San Francisco, 1992, no. 146.
- 2001
- Müller, Jürgen. Pieter Bruegel invenit: Das druckgraphische Werk. Hamburg, 2001, no. 54.
- 2006
- The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ouderkerk aan den The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 2006, no. 33 II
- 2014
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 47 (Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013), 2014, List of New Acquisitions. p. 59.
- 2024
- Fantastic Prints 1500-1650: Imperial Prague as a Crossroads of European Prints (exh. cat.). Koriyama City Museum of Art, ed. Koriyama, Koriyama City Museum of Art, 2024, pp. 98, 215, cat. no. 54