The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa

1570

Pieter van der Heyden

Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Cornelis van Tienen

Publisher, Dutch, died probably 1678

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1964.8.403

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 45, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 18 (as "The Marriage of Carnival and Lent")

Bibliography

1908

  • Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 45, state ii/iv.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; lower right, in image, in plate: C. van Tienen excud.; lower right, in cartouche, in plate: Bruegel. inuentor.; in lower margin, in plate: MOPSO NISA DATVR, QVID NON SPEREMVS AMANTES. (Mopsus marries Nisa, what may not we lovers hope for.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 246.]

Wikidata ID

Q65511670

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