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The Thin Kitchen

Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, about 1530–after March 1572)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1563

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 22.2 x 29 cm (8 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 x 29.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB2711
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Van Bastelaer 154
DescriptionPair to the Fat Kitchen
Signed Signed in plate, lower center: P/.AVE. [monogram]
Marks Watermark [not identified]; verso, MFA Babcock bequest stamp in purple, with accession number in ink: 2710 [Lugt 207]
InscriptionsIn plate, within image, at upper left: H. Cock ex
In plate, at lower left: brueghel inue 1563
In plate, at lower left: Ou Maigre-os le pot mouue, est vu pouure Conuiue / Pource, á Grasse-cuisine iray, tant que ie Viue
In plate, at lower right: Daer magherman die pot roert is een arm ghasterije / dus Loop ick nae de uettre Cuecken met herten blije
ProvenanceJune 12, 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)