Portrait of Pieter Breughel

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Portrait of Pieter Breughel

Artist Anthony van Dyck Flemish, 1599 - 1641

Dateabout 1626-1632

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (24.1 x 14.9 cm)

Mediumetching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineWinthrop H. Perry Collection

Object number

1923.28

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Published ReferencesF.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, Engravings, Woodcuts, Amsterdam 1952 ? VI See A. M. Hind, "Van Duck: His original Etchings and His Iconography," PRINT COLLECTORS" QUARTERLY, V, No. 1, Feb. 1915, pp. 3-37.Exhibition HistoryTMA, Whistler: Influences, Friends, and the Not-So-Friendly, Feb. 26 - May 30, 2010. TMA, The Dramatic Image: Baroque Prints of the 17th Century, February 25 - July 31, 2011.Label TextPieter Brueghel was the eldest son of the famous Flemish genre painter, Pieter Brueghel the Elder (about 1525–1569). The younger Brueghel painted landscapes, religious scenes, and fantasies, but is best known as a copyist of his father’s work (see his version of his father’s composition Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap in Gallery 23 upstairs).