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View of Heidelberg (New York)

View of Heidelberg (New York)

Object type Drawing
Genre Village, Town and Cityscape
Date ca. 1588-ca. 1589
Dimensions 20 x 30.5 cm
Support Paper
Support marks Briquet /III, nr. 10569 (Hubach 1996)
Further inscription Verso, "P.Brugel" (later hand)
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Bailey/Walker cat. #NY.MM.1
Location New York, NY, United States
Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession numbers 1995.15
Tags Bridge, City, River
External resources Metropolitan Museum of Art
Schilling 1924, nr. 33, XV, ill.
Münz 1961, nr. A35
Winner 1961, fig. 14, p. 204, 206, 21
Bergsträsser 1965, p. 262-263
London, 1978, nr. 29
Zwollo 1982, p. 96
Stuttgart 1984, p. 23
Karlsruhe 1986, p. 363
Boon 1992, vol. 1, p. 433
Sotheby's 1993, nr. 87
New York 1994, p. 36
Bambach et al. 1995, p. 34, ill.
Hubach 1996, fig. 1, p. 11, 13, 25, ill.
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, nr. 146, p. 39, 426-427
Ruby in Munich 2013, p. 35, fig. 24
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," February 6, 1995–April 16, 1995
Essen/Vienna 1997-98, nr. 146
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," May 3, 1999–July 25, 1999
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," November 5, 2001–January 28, 2002
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 24, 2005–April 24, 2005
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions," October 24, 2008–February 1, 2009
19th century to 20th century Amsterdam Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries
Dec 14 1911 Amsterdam His sale, Lot #1278
Robert von Hirsch
Jun 20 1978 London His sale, Sotheby's, Vol. I, Lot #29 (With Kate Ganz, Ltd. (1991))
Nov 17 1993 Amsterdam Sale, Sotheby's, Lot #87
Sale, Kate Ganz Ltd.
1995 New York, NY Bought by Metropolitan Museum with David T. Schiff Gift and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund
E.A. Honig
August 5, 2014

According to the Metropolitan Museum's website, the signature is on the verso of the drawing, at the lower left, inscribed "P.Brugel" in graphite by a later hand.
Jan did another drawing of the castle while he was in Heidelberg, now known only through a copy in Stuttgart: see Essen/Vienna, p. 426, n. 8. The castle appears from in the background of several versions of Jan's Allegory of Earth from around 1611: Ertz 491-4.

Christine Liu
November 2, 2013

According to Ruby, depicts the northern front of Heidelberg castle before it was finished in the early 1590s. This confirms that Jan’s departure from Antwerp occurred in the late 1580s.