Concert in a Mussel Shell, The - Amsterdam

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

1562

Location:

Location: Amsterdam - Netherlands - Rijksmuseum (objectnummer RP-P-OB-102513)

Material:

Engraving -paper

Dimensions:

19,5 x 28,6

Unverfehrt catalogue:

144 - Ill. 238

De Vrij catalogue:

More information

Notes: A company of musicians, singers and clergy into a sailing mussel shell around a table music, singing, eating, drinking and sex. Links vomits a Piper in the water and a monk embraces a woman. Out of the shell puts out a tree branch on which an OWL. A man makes music on a fend.

Published by Hieronymus Cock and similar equal to the copy in this Museum (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.

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History:

Literature:

Hieronymus Cock (1510-1570) : printmaker and publisher in Antwerp at the sign of the four winds, p. 315, cat.nr. 14 Heer - Kuyl, p. 29, cat.nr. 50 Boekhorst - Brueghel, p. 141, cat.nr. 27 Frederik Muller, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen : beredeneerde beschrijving van Nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, 4 delen, F. Muller, Amsterdam 1863-1882, dl. IV (supplement, aanhangsel en algemeen register), p. 41, nr. 418L (volksleven ca. 1550).

Source:

Website 'rijksmuseum.nl'

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