The hidden work was Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s version of Perseverance.Photo: The Met
An intern at the Royal Belgian Library has discovered a print hidden behind one of Pieter Brueghel’s prints.
When 23-year-old Margaux Nogue was cleaning out “Stone Operation,” a 1559 engraving of Bruegel’s work created by Hieronymus de Cocq during his apprenticeship, he found a cardboard box from an engraving more than 400 years old. It was when I removed the backing paper. , the Institute said in a press release.
“When I took it off, I discovered another piece on the back, the second sculpture by Bruegel,” Noges told Belgian broadcaster RTFB.
The second sculpture was of Brueghel’s work Patience, a 1557 work depicting the personification of virtue Patience surrounded by monsters representing evil and sin. Born in what is now North Brabant, Pieter Brueghel the Elder is considered the most important artist of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance.
Both sculptures are believed to be the work of de Kok. The museum describes the find as “extremely rare”, as the type of print used was rare in the 16th century.
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