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The Large Landscapes: Solicitudo Rustica

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Date: c. 1555–58
Medium: engraving and etching
Culture: Flanders
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 149850

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In the Netherlands, Pieter Bruegel’s designs for a series of large landscape prints may have relied on sketches (now lost) he made passing through the Alps in the early 1550s. This view is more a compendium of various visual characteristics of the Alps, rather than a specific place. The elevated point of view and massive, powerful cliffs and crags in the distance give way to a river valley and flat plains akin to Bruegel’s Low Countries homeland. The figures include peasants whose mundane activities reinforce the landscape as a container for “rustic cares” ( solicitudo rustica ). The letters "inue" next to the artist's name, "brueghel," represented the word "inventit," Latin for "has designed it."

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Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
Provenance: ?–1980: Leona E. Prasse [1896–1984], Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | September 9, 1980–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH