View of a Town; verso: Two Battlescenes and Landscape
DrawingsNetherlandish16th century

View of a Town; verso: Two Battlescenes and Landscape

1566?

Artists

Pieter Bruegel, the ElderArtist
Classification
Drawings
Medium
Brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink
Culture
Netherlandish
Century
16th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

14 x 21.8 cm (5 1/2 x 8 9/16 in.) mount: 20.2 x 27.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Lord Wharton. [Baskett & Day, London, 1975], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.106

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