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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Bruegel)

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Bruegel depicts the woman as one of the few graceful figures in the scene. She is rendered as an idealised form, atypical of Brugel's usual earthy and homely female figures; though the basic layout of the composition is Netherlandish, "the austere composition and monumental figures are perhaps the
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was published in 1579 by Paul Perret, who apparently lent the painting for the purpose since there are regular pricks along the edges to make a grid. There are a number of other copies, some attributed to the artist's sons, perhaps made after the engraving, and the painting was lent to Cardinal
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on the ground before her feet. A number of the unthrown stones lie on the floor to the woman's left.
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The painting was not sold by the artist and seems to be the only one inherited by his son
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wings for an altarpiece in 1550/51, as he finished his apprenticeship. This was in
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24.1 cm × 34.4 cm (9.5 in × 13.5 in)
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most Italianate in all Bruegel's paintings". Apart from an even smaller
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Dutch and Flemish Paintings: The Collection of Willem, Baron Van Dedem
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It was sold by the family in the 17th century, apparently by
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Wied, Alexander Wied and Van Miegroet, Hans J. "Bruegel."
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Braham, 7. Braham says "the most notable other example"
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Paint job: How the Tate profited from a great art heist
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in 1834 and again in 1952 when it was bought by Count
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Courtauld Gallery
panel painting
grisaille
Netherlandish Renaissance
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery
John 8:1–8:20
Jesus
Pharisees
scribes
death by stoning
cast the stone at her
Frick Collection
The Death of the Virgin
Upton House, Warwickshire
Mechelen
Peeter Baltens
Death of the Virgin at Upton House, Warwickshire, 1564
Death of the Virgin
Upton House, Warwickshire
The 1579 engraving by Paul Perret
Pieter Brueghel the Younger's oil on panel version of c. 1600
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Jan Brueghel the Elder
engraving
Federico Borromeo
Bergamo
Pieter Brueghel the Younger

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