The Bagpipe Player
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · c. 1562 · pen and brown ink, with some incised lines, on laid paper; laid down
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About this picture
The Bagpipe Player is a public-domain drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, dated c. 1562. Pen and brown ink, with some incised lines, on laid paper; laid down. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Bagpipe Player” (c. 1562) 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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