The Bagpipe Player
c. 1562
Medium
pen and brown ink, with some incised lines, on laid paper; laid down
Dimensions
sheet: 20.6 × 14.6 cm (8 1/8 × 5 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner
Accession Number
2016.127.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 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...