Joannes van Doetecum, Beugelen

The Kermis ('Festival') of Saint George. Graphic artists: Joannes van Doetecum I (died 1605) and Lucas van Doetecum (active 1554/1572; died before 1589), Designer: Pieter Breugel I the Elder (c. 1525/1530 - 1569), Publisher: Paul de La Houve

Print. 330 x 519 mm (12 15/16 x 20 9/16 in.); sheet 37.5 x 54.1 cm (14 3/4 x 21 5/16 in.). Inscription lower center, in image, in plate: H. COCK EXCVDEBAT; lower right, in cartouche, in plate: BRVEGEL INVENTOR; at right, on tavern sign, in plate: dit is in die kro[on] (this is the crown); at right, on banner, in plate: laet die boeren haer kermis houuen (let the peasants have their kermis) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 196.]

Exhibitions

• 1982 - Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 54, repro.
• 1996 - Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.

Literature

• 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. (van Doetecum family, Henk Nalis author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 219, state i/iii.
• 2018 - Oberthaler, Elke, et al. Breugel: The Hand of the Master. Exh cat, Vienna, 2018: 121, fig. 1

Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (BdH 10075 (PK)). From the estate of Dr J.C.J. Bierens de Haan, 1951

National Gallery of Art (1964.8.400), Washington, USA