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The Drunken Peasant Pushed into a Pigsty

(Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
(Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
(Netherlandish (Antwerp), about 1500–1565)
1568
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsPlatemark (roundel): 18.1 cm (7 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 24.1 x 20.4 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGeorge Nixon Black Fund
Accession number34.599
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, within image, lower center: Brueghel.inuet/martinus petreiu.excude/IH.W 1568; in letterpress, upper center, above roundel: Als die weerelt seyt arm bloet bespot./Soo moet ghy als een -Bercken toch no int cof.; lower center, below roundel: Moet ick dan int cof, als een -Bercken mispresen./ Ist tauont mijnen dach, tmach morghen umen wesen.
ProvenanceWaldburg-Wolfegg Collection; October 4, 1934, purchased by the MFA.
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix