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1999.132: Wooded Landscape with a Distant View toward the Sea
Harvard Art Museums
Drawings
A drawing of a road in the woods surrounded by tall trees. Four figures are shown walking in different directions. One man is walking toward a town in the distance, another is coming from the town into the woods and a couple of men walk together toward the road through the forest.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.132
- People
- Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)
- Title
- Wooded Landscape with a Distant View toward the Sea
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1554
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/191990
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on blue antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 34.4 cm (10 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
- Signed: lower left, brown ink: 1554 brueghel
- inscription: verso, graphite: 18
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Glerum, The Hague, 25 November 1991, lot 53, repr. (as Jan Brueghel the Elder)]. [W. J. van Leeuwen, Amsterdam] sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1992 (without their mark, L. 33
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Realism
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Origin of the name
The name Bruegel, initially proposed by Mario Monti, can be understood as standing for Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory. It was also chosen because of the extraordinary evocative potential and resonance of the artistic work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (the only one in the Bruegel/Breughel painters’ family who adopted this spelling of his name) with the think tank’s aims and identity.
Pieter Bruegel drew his inspiration from the keen observation of the life of ordinary people and daily economic activity, thus echoing Bruegel‘s concrete orientation and focus on facts-based research and analysis. He also embodied European diversity, having been born in the Netherlands, trained in Flanders and Italy, inspired by painters from Germany (such as Dürer) and elsewhere, before his 1569 death in Spanish-occupied and partly French-speaking Brussels. He lived in a Europe that was marked by disorder but also by intense exchanges across countries, an unprecedented opening to the world and questioning of long-accepted ideas: an era which, for Bruegel the think tank, acts as a stimulating source of inspiration.
The birth of a think tank
The concept of Bruegel was initially developed jointly by two French economists, Jean Pisani-Ferry an