Forest Landscape with Wild Animals

Prints and Drawings

late 16th century

After Pieter Bruegel, the elder
Flemish, 1525/30-1569

This drawing belongs to a group of some 20 similar sheets that record compositions by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (most of which are now lost). Far from direct observation, they are inventions that use landscape motifs for imaginative purposes. Because of the relative novelty of landscape compositions as independent of narrative or devotional subjects, Bruegel’s landscape drawings provided new inspiration for the artists who had access to his works. As such, drawings made after his compositions not only attest to Bruegel’s influence in the rise of landscape as a distinct genre of artistic expression, they also record some of his compositions that would otherwise be unknown.

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Artist: Pieter Bruegel, the elder
Title: Forest Landscape with Wild Animals
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1545–1599
Medium: Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper, laid down on card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and dark brown ink: "Breugel"; below image, lower center on mount, in graphite: "Breugel from Titian"; inscribed verso of mount, overall, in pen and dark brown ink: "schematic vase design"; verso of mount, upper left, in graphite: "Bruegel after Titian (AB (J)"; verso, in graphite: "929"; verso of mount, lower left, in graphite: "14 ⅛ x 9 ½"; in pen and brown ink: "Jan Bruegehel/ 1568–1625"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "No 79"
Dimensions: Primary support: 36 × 24.4 cm (14 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 47.8 × 36.5 cm (18 7/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1932
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Frits Lugt, Musée du Louvre, Inventaire Général des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord (Maîtres des Anciens Pays-Bas nés avant 1550) (Paris, 1968), p. 84, under no. 334.
Karl Arndt, “Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Als Vorläufer Coninxloos,” Bermerkungen zur Geschichte der Waldlandschaft,” Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Sitzungsberichte N.F. 14 (1965/66), p. 10, no. 3d.
Karl Arndt, “Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. und die Geschichte der ‘Waldlandschaft’” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 14 (1972), p. 99. No. K2d (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).
L’Époque des Lucas de Leyde et Pierre Bruegel: Dessins des Anciens (Paris, 1981), p. 64, in notes under cat. no. 44 (as copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder).

Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Als Zeichner, Sept. 19–Nov. 16, 1975, cat. 45, p. 46, pl. 76, (as after Pieter Bruegel).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 226-27, 229 (ill.), 292, cat. 79, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Paul Sandby (1725–1809), London [blind stamp (Lugt 2112), recto, lower right]. Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871–1946), Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon [inscription (Lugt 153), recto, lower left on mount, in black]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 26–27 1911, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower center, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, center, in black].

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