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View from the top of a hill, with figures standing or seated around faive trees; town in the valley below to the left: V.2-83

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

View from the top of a hill, with figures standing or seated around faive trees; town in the valley below to the left

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pelletier, Jean
Publisher: Chéreau, la Veuve
Painter: Bruegel, Pieter, the elder (After)

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by VanSittart, Augustus Arthur

Note

Lettered in margin with artists' names and: 'Le Tableau original appartient a Mr Meunier Medecin de l'Hotel Royal des Invalides' and underneath with the publication line 'A Paris, chés la Ve de F. Chéreau graveur, rue St Jacques aux 2. Piliers d'Or".

School or Style

French

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: V.2-83
Primary reference Number: 177761
Heinecken: III. p.339
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 7 August 2011 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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