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    "localId": "124115",
    "label": "Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length",
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    "dtoType": "drawing"
}

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    "id": "124115",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length",
    "description": "These three drawings, which depict seated peasants at a market in the city and a team of horses led by a herder on horseback, are part of a group of approximately 80 observational drawings by Savery. His farmers, market vendors, and other everyday people are never posed and rarely glance at the viewer. Savery marked each drawing with detailed instructions regarding the colors to be used later and the words <em>naer het leven</em> (from the life). The works were made in Prague when Savery was employed at the court of the great patron and art collector Emperor Rudolf II, demonstrating that interest in peasant life extended even to the highest echelons of society.",
    "date": "c. 1600",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.114",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79901774"
    ],
    "creators": [
        12953
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.114/1945.114_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Flanders"
    ],
    "accession": "1945.114"
}

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    "tec": "Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink",
    "tombstone": "Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length, c. 1600. Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639). Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.114",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "description": "beige(1) laid paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - Flemish",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "by artist, upper left, in brown ink: omberne / hoet ; by artist, upper right, in brown ink: gr[y?]sse hoed [=gray hat]; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, left center, in brown ink: [brúinockker?] rock [=brown-ochre mantel]; by artist, center, in brown ink: zwartter rock [=black mantel]; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: [nart?] het leuen [=taken from life]; VERSO, lower left, in blue pencil: WCA805 / WCA803"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Francis, Henry. \"A Drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>33, no. 4 (April 1946): 44-46.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 44; Mentioned: p. 45",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141272"
        },
        {
            "citation": "De Tolnay, Charles. <em>The Drawings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, With a Critical Catalogue. </em>London: A. Zwemmer, 1952.",
            "page_number": "84, no. 112 (as Bruegel)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 585",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n109"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Münz, Ludwig, and Luke Herrmann. <em>Bruegel: the drawings.</em> London: Phaidon, 1961.",
            "page_number": "223-224, no. 120 (as Bruegel)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 105",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n129"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 105",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n129"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Spicer, Joaneath Ann, “The ‘Naer Het Leven’ Drawings: By Pieter Bruegel or Roelandt Savery?” Master Drawings Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1970): pp. 3-30, 63-82.",
            "page_number": "pp. 6, 15, 25; pl. 5"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kuznet︠s︡ov, I︠U︡, and T. A. T︠S︡eshkovskai︠a︡.<em> Dessins flamands et hollandais du dix-septième siècle. Collections de l'Ermitage, Leningrad et du Musée Pouchkine, Moscou. </em>Exh. cat. Bruxelles: Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, boulevard de l'Empereur, 3, 1972.",
            "page_number": "216-17 (as Bruegel)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 122",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n142"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Spicer-Durham, Joaneath Ann. <em>The Drawings of Roelandt Savery.\" </em>PhD diss, Yale University, 1979.",
            "page_number": "no. C 208"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Liess, Reinhard. \"Die Kleinen Landschaften Pieter Bruegels D.A. Im Lichte Seines Gesamtwerks: 2. Teil.\" <em>Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch Graz / Institute Fur Kunstgeschichte </em>17 (1981): 35-150.",
            "page_number": "37-38, 47, 70, 87, 96-97, 103-05, 110 (as Bruegel)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. <em>Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "168-169, no. 62"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. <em>Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus</em>. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.",
            "page_number": "61-63, no. 38"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 203, no. 59"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.114",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:23:54.693000",
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    "coll": "DR - Flemish",
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    ],
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