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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Pieter Breughel the elder. The drawing shows a village scene with a row of cottages interspersed with trees recessing from the lower left hand corner to the middle of the right edge of the composition. The paper is long and thin and in a horizontal orientation. In the upper left of the composition are a group of birds flying in the sky, and in the lower right is a woman walking holding the hand of a child who is lagging behind her.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 14
PIETER BREUGHEL THE ELDER
(b. about 1525; d. 1569)
A VILLAGE STREET
Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Pen and sepia; 9.9 x 3.09 [should read 30.9] cm. (3 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Study of a village street in Flanders, such as Breughel used for the background of pictures - the 'Peasants' Quarrel', for instance, engraved by Vorsterman, where a similar street appears in perspective, and the wonderful snowy landscape with hunters at Vienna, where just such a village is seen from a hillside above it. This is a good example of Breughel's beautiful and delicate pen-drawing, while the group of two figures, apparently a woman helping a drunken man to his feet, illustrates his power of expressing action by summary suggestion.
L. B."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Pieter Breughel's the Elder, A Village Street (1932.71/14). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105066 | Go to resource |
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