The Dirty Bride or The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa
ca. 1566
Medium
Pen and black-brown ink on white-prepared partially carved block of applewood
Dimensions
Overall: 10 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (26.4 x 41.6 x 2.9 cm)
Classification
Blocks
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.63
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...