drawing
- Museum number
- 1910,1013.7
- Description
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A woodland scene with stags and bears; view on the edge of a wood with stream and church in the distance, a family of bears in the foreground, rabbits and deer further back and a lioness at left
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1583-1625
- Dimensions
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Height: 343 millimetres
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Width: 257 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Five versions are known of this composition with wild animals, probably all copies after a (now lost) original by Pieter Bruegel. The BM sheet and one in the Fondation Custodia, Paris (inv.no.8025) are qualitatively the best. The Paris sheet has traditionally been attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder, while the other versions are considered anonymous copies. Three other versions are kept in the Art Institute of Chicago (inv.no.22.1932) and the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv.nos.20724 and 20725).
Literature: M. Winner, 'Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. und die Geschichte der Waldlandschaft', in Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 14 (1972), Berlin, 1972, pp.97-101, no.K2 (as a copy after Pieter Bruegel); T. Gerszi, 'Bruegels Nachwirkung auf die niederländischen Landschaftsmaler um 1600', in Oud-Holland 90 (1974), pp.220-221, fig.15 (as Paul Bril after Jan Brueghel I); M. Winner, in 'Pieter Breughel d. Ä. als Zeichner', exh.cat. Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, 1975, cat.no.43 (as anonymous copy after Pieter Bruegel; see cat.nos.42-45 for the other versions); 'Dutch Landscape: The Early Years', exh.cat. National Gallery, London, 1986, cat.no.11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973, BM, Netherlandish prints and drawings (no cat.)
1975, Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, 'Pieter Bruegel als Zeichner' cat. no. 43
1986 Sep-Nov, London, NG, 'Dutch Landscape', no. 11
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,1013.7