Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Christ in Limbo



Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Christ in Limbo



Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Christ in Limbo
1561
223 x 294 mm
Pen and gray-brown ink, contours indented for transfer
Albertina, Vienna


Related works

Engraving:

Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel - Christ in Limbo
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel
Christ in Limbo

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Mielke 55

Literature
Larry Silver, Pieter Bruegel, New York; London, 2011, fig. 139


Iconclass

73D9 Christ in the underworld, harrowing of hell, Christ in Limbo, 'descensus ad inferos', 'Anastasis'

External links

RKD 21490
Albertina Accession number 7873

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