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Christ in Limbo

Pieter van der Heyden and Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Christ in Limbo

1557

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Christ in Limbo

1557

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 263 x 333 mm. (10 3/8 x 13 1/8 in.) Plate: 233 x 293 mm. (9 3/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund, and purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Alfred R. and Henry G. Riggs in Memory of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1967.49
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University. "Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640." Exh. cat. Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University (6 May - 27 June 1993) and Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (15 August - 26 September 1993),
cat. no. 30, p. 125, illust. p. 153.

"Imagined Worlds," IMC, New York, AXA Gallery, November , 2005 - January 28, 2006.
BMA News, Vol. XXX, no. 1-2, 1968, p. 32.

Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: LR: "H. cock excu."; "Bruegel invent"

Artist

Pieter van der Heyden

2000–2000

Flemish, c. 1530-c. 1575
Meet Pieter van der Heyden

Artist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1524–1568

Flemish, c. 1525 - 1569
Meet Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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