Sailing Vessels: Armed Four-Master Putting Out to Sea
Pieter Bruegel (Netherlandish, c. 1525/30–1569) · 1561–65 · engraving
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Sailing Vessels: Armed Four-Master Putting Out to Sea is a CC0 illustration by Pieter Bruegel (Netherlandish, c. 1525/30–1569), dated 1561–65. Engraving. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Sailing Vessels: Armed Four-Master Putting Out to Sea” (1561–65) is a wide scene crowded with small incidents — peasants, a proverb, or a landscape — the sort of design Bruegel also spread through prints.
About the artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (about 1525–1569) was a Netherlandish painter of peasants, proverbs, and wide landscapes crowded with small incidents. The print versions spread those compositions widely.
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