drawing
- Museum number
- 1919,0822.30
- Description
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Landscape with the Rape of Helen being pulled into a boat, figures fighting beyond, rocky outcrop behind and a circular temple to right
Pen and brown ink with grey wash
- Production date
- 1535-1550 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 226 millimetres
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Width: 345 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing was rejected as Matthijs Cock by Virginie D'haene in 2012, following Riggs. The figures are taken from the Marcantonio print B.XIV.170.209 (or the copy B.XIV.171.210).
Literature: H. Mielke, in 'Pieter Breughel d. Ä. als Zeichner', exh.cat. Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, 1975, cat.no.143; T. Riggs, 'Hieronymus Cock', New York, 1977, no.ICQ-2 (as perhaps Hieronymus Cock); J.O. Hand et al., 'The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century', exh.cat. National Gallery of Art Washington and Pierpont Morgan Library New York, Cambridge, 1986-87, pp.117-119, under cat.no.34, pp.111-112; V. D'haene, 'Landscapes in the new Italian or Antique Way: The drawn oeuvre of Matthijs Cock reconsidered', in Master Drawings 50 (2012), p.311, fig.26, and p.323, cat.no.D1 (rejected as Matthijs Cock; follows Riggs in suggesting an attribution to Hieronymus Cock).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1975, Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, 'Pieter Bruegel als Zeichner' cat. no. 143
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,0822.30