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The Sailing Vessels
Armed Three-Master with Daedalus and Icarus in the Sky
The Sailing Vessels
Frans Huys (Netherlandish, 1522–1562)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
about 1561–62
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 22.2 x 28.6 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.6 x 32.7 cm (10 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 26.6 x 32.7 cm (10 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number29.1954
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Bastelaer 101, i; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. III, Bruegel) 101; Orenstein (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Breugel) 65, i / ii
State
I/II
Signed
Signed in plate, lower left: .F.H.
Marks
Watermark (yes, but not yet identified); recto, upper center, outside platemark, in ink: 43.; verso, lower center, collector's stamp in black ink: [the mark of Waldburg-Wolfegg Kupferstichkabinet, Lugt 2542]; lower left, in graphite: B22010; lower right: F.VO
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left, after Huys's initials: bruegel; lower right, in margin below image: .Cum.priuileg
ProvenancePrince Waldburg-Wolfegg (Lugt 2542). October 1929, purchased from Keppel & Co. (dealer), New York by the MFA. (Accession Date: October 1, 1929)