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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

Pieter van der Heyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Festival of Fools, after 1570, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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.