print
- Museum number
- 1866,0407.22
- Description
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The Sleeping Pedlar Robbed by Monkeys; The pedlar lies in middle foreground, while all around him monkeys spread his wares about and invade his person, pulling down his breeches and looking through his hair for lice; first state before addition of second building in upper left; after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1562
Engraving
- Production date
- 1562
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Width: 289 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Following Hymans, Bastelaer posits a first state of this print dated 1557, though he never saw an impression of this state himself. In turn, Lebeer and Hollstein have continued to suggest this earlier edition without knowing an exemplar of it. David Freedberg suggests that a date earlier than 1562 is not unlikely, given the early spelling of Bruegel's name with an 'h'. See Hymans, 'Biographie Nationale de Belgique,' t. XVI, col. 498, n. 43; David Freedberg, 'The Prints of Pieter Bruegel the Elder,' Tokyo, 1989, n. 53.
For other examples of this popular subject and further notes, see 2003,0531.4.
Literature: L. Buijnsters-Smet, 'Straatverkopers in beeld: Tekeningen en prenten van Nederlandse kunstenaars circa 1540-1850', Nijmegen, 2012, pp.60-62.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,0407.22
