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The Twelve Flemish Proverbs
The Drunken Peasant Pushed into a Pigsty
The Twelve Flemish Proverbs
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Publisher: Maarten Peeters (Netherlandish (Antwerp), about 1500–1565)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Publisher: Maarten Peeters (Netherlandish (Antwerp), about 1500–1565)
1568
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark (roundel): 18.1 cm (7 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 24.1 x 20.4 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.1 x 20.4 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
George Nixon Black Fund
Accession Number34.599
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Bastelaer 164 (I); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1690; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish) 164
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center: IH.W
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in black, in circle: FÜRSTL.WALDBURG/WOLFEGG'sches KUPFERSTICHKABINET [with coat of arm; Lugt 2542; MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 33068
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, within image, lower center: Brueghel.inuet/martinus petreiu.excude/IH.W 1568; in letterpress, upper center, above roundel: Als die weerelt seyt arm bloet bespot./Soo moet ghy als een -Bercken toch no int cof.; lower center, below roundel: Moet ick dan int cof, als een -Bercken mispresen./
Ist tauont mijnen dach, tmach morghen umen wesen.
Ist tauont mijnen dach, tmach morghen umen wesen.
ProvenanceWaldburg-Wolfegg Collection; October 4, 1934, purchased by the MFA.