The Alchemist
Medium
Engraving; first state of three
Dimensions
sheet (irreg cut to plate line and within it): 13 3/16 x 17 11/16 in. (33.5 x 44.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.72.29
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Philips Galle|Hieronymus Cock · 1525–1569
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a pioneering Netherlandish painter of the Renaissance, was born around 1525–1530, likely in Breda in the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Netherlands). Little is known of his early family background, but he apprenticed under the Antwerp painter and designer Pieter Coecke van Aelst between approximately 1545 and 1550, mastering tapestry design, architecture, and painting tech...