The publication Bruegel and Beyond – Netherlandish Drawings in the Royal Library of Belgium, 1500-1800 brings together for the first time over one hundred master drawings from the Royal Library’s vaults.
The Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels houses the largest collection of drawings in the country. Among its highlights are works by leading artists of the Low Countries, including Pieter Bruegel I, Joris Hoefnagel, Hendrick Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacques Jordaens.
As the library’s collection has been little studied up to now, it is largely unknown to scholars and the general public.
Not only new art-historical insights are presented, but also numerous rediscovered drawings and revised attributions to artists such as Maarten van Heemskerck and Karel van Mander. This carefully researched book, written by thirty specialists in the field, aims to make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the history of Netherlandish drawing from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
More information
Bruegel and Beyond is published by Hannibal Books in collaboration with Yale University Press.
Check the collection of European drawings at KBR in the collection database Belgica.
Bruegel and Beyond: Netherlandish Drawings in the Royal Library of Belgium, 1500-1800
Daan van Heesch, Sarah Van Ooteghem & Joris Van Grieken (ed.)
392 pages, 30,5 x 24 cm (hardcover)
English edition
ISBN 978 94 6436 638 9