Concert in a Mussel Shell, The - Rotterdam

Pieter van der Heyden (1530-c. 1572) - after Pieter Bruegel

1562

Location:

Rotterdam - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (BdH14469(PK)

Material:

Engraving

Dimensions:

19,6 x 28,7

Unverfehrt catalogue:

144 - ill. 238

De Vrij catalogue:

More information

Also called: Merrymaker in a Mussel at Sea.

Published by Hieronymus Cock and similar equal to the copy in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (RP-P-OB-3074), in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Library of the University of Liege, the Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s- Hertogenbosch and auctioned at Christies in Londen on December 9, 2021 lot 56.

An eponymous image, published by Johann Theodor de Brij, can be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Credit line:

History:

Auctioned by Boerner in Leipzig on 8 November 1932. Bequest from Dr. JCJ Bierens de Haan in 1951 to the Lucas van Leyden Foundation, who lent the engraving to the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum on an unknown date.

Literature:

Source:

Website ‘Wikimedia Commons: Pieter van der Heyden Pretmakers in een mossel op zee.

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