Pagus Nemorosus (Wooded Village)
Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate): 30.7 × 42 cm (12 1/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.419
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of Art, where *Pagus NemorosusWooded Village)* captivates with its intricate depiction of a lush, forested hamlet. Created around 1555–1557, this print is an etching and engraving on laid paper by master engravers Johannes and Lucas van Doetech, faithfully reproducing a design by Pieter Bruegel the Elder the renowned Flemish artist of the Northern Renaissance. Measuring about 30.7 × 42 cm, it showcases Bruegel's masterful ability to blend detailed human activity with expansive natural landscapes, evoking the everyday life of 16th-century rural Europe. Bruegel, ...
About the Artist
Johannes and Lucas van Doetechum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Johannes van Doetechum the Elder (c. 1528/1532–1605) and his brother Lucas van Doetechum (active 1554–1572, died before 1589) were pioneering Netherlandish engravers based in Antwerp, renowned for their collaborative reproductive prints that faithfully captured the inventive designs of leading artists. Born in Deventer, the brothers honed their craft in the bustling Antwerp print workshops, workin...