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Source Description
A son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan traveled in Italy in the 1590s and later enjoyed a successful career in Antwerp, where he eventually became court painter to the Habsburg regents. As a painter, he specialized in floral still lifes and landscapes, sometimes collaborating with his friend Peter Paul Rubens. His drawings, however, are almost exclusively landscapes. Bruegel intended them to be sold as independent works, rather than as preparatory studies for paintings. The date indicated in the lower left corner of this sheet may be correct, but, along with the artist's name it seems to have been added by a later hand.
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Document identity
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136401
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Landscape with Travelers
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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136401
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drawing
title
Landscape with Travelers
description
A son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan traveled in Italy in the 1590s and later enjoyed a successful career in Antwerp, where he eventually became court painter to the Habsburg regents. As a painter, he specialized in floral still lifes and landscapes, sometimes collaborating with his friend Peter Paul Rubens. His drawings, however, are almost exclusively landscapes. Bruegel intended them to be sold as independent works, rather than as preparatory studies for paintings. The date indicated in the lower left corner of this sheet may be correct, but, along with the artist's name it seems to have been added by a later hand.
date
1605
citation
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80030303
creators
12392
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 19.9 x 31 cm (7 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
cul
Flanders, early 17th Century
accession
1960.27
Source extras
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pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and blue watercolor over stylus
tombstone
Landscape with Travelers, 1605. Jan Brueghel (Flemish, 1568–1625). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and blue watercolor over stylus; sheet: 19.9 x 31 cm (7 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund, 1960.27
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description
beige (1) laid paper
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DR - Flemish
inscriptions
inscription
signed [falsley ?], lower left, in brown ink: Brueghel .1605. ; lower right, in black ink: 12 ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: No / 40 ; lower left, in brown ink: Daer Abraham / met syn volck de lantsyen en nemen [?]
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Delia E. Holden Fund
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2026-05-29 06:57:39.838000
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136401
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Drawings
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DR - Flemish
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pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and blue watercolor over stylus
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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