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The Dirty Bride
The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa
The Dirty Bride
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)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1570
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 22.5 x 29.1 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 25.4 x 32 cm (10 x 12 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.4 x 32 cm (10 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Seth K. Sweetser Fund
Accession Number33.561
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Bastelaer 216, i ; Orenstein (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Pieter Bruegel the Elder) 45, i / iv
State
I/IV
Signed
Signed in plate, within image, lower left: P/.AME.; right of center: H. Cock. excud. 1570.; lower right: Bruegel.inuentor.
Marks
Watermark: gothic p with [?]; recto, lower right, in ink: 321/40.; verso; MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 32988; in graphite: Bast 216; v. B. 216 I
InscriptionsIn plate, below image: MOPSO NISA DATVR, QVID NON SPEREMVS AMANTES
ProvenanceMay 22 - 24, 1933, C. G. Boerner sale, Leipzig, lot 203; 1933 purchased from that sale by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 20, 1933)