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First View of the Environs of Antwerp (Premiere Vue des Environs d'Anvers)
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First View of the Environs of Antwerp (Premiere Vue des Environs d'Anvers)

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 7/8 x 14 3/16 in. (30.2 x 36 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jan Brueghel the Elder

1568–1625Habsburg Netherlands

He was the son of Pieter Bruegel. He is famous for small-scale history paintings, flower still-lifes, allegorical and mythological scenes, and landscapes, including imaginary mountain landscapes, forest interiors, villages and country roads, ports, river views, seascapes, hunting scenes, battles and depictions of Hell and the underworld. Died suddenly in a cholera epidemic in Antwerp; his son, Jan the younger, took over the studio.