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Pieter van der Heyden
The Festival of Foolsafter 1570

Not on view
Engraving after Pieter Bruegel showing a crowd of figures in Flemish dress scrambling in a chaotic ball game, with colonnaded and circular pavilion architecture in the distance and typeset verse below
Artist or Maker
Pieter van der Heyden
Flanders, Antwerp, circa 1530-after 1572
After
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Flanders, 1525-1569
Title
The Festival of Fools
Place Made
Holland
Date Made
after 1570
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 17 1/4 in. (32.7 × 43.82 cm) Image: 12 3/4 × 17 1/8 in. (32.39 × 43.5 cm)
Credit Line
Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number
70.5
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.