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1606

Portrait of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Aegidius Sadeler II

Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

Printed long after Bruegel’s death, this commemorative portrait shows the artist’s image surrounded by a frame above a sarcophagus. The figures of Minerva, Mercury, and Fame around the frame extol Bruegel’s artistic virtuosity, still celebrated in the seventeenth century.

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Aegidius Sadeler II, Portrait of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1606 | Philadelphia Art Museum