The Ass at School
Musea Brugge, image: www.artinflanders.be, photo: Dominique Provost
Artist
Pieter van der Heyden

(engraver)

Hieronymus Cock

(publisher)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(designer)

Production date
1556
Collection
Groeninge Museum
Object number
2014.GRO0022.III
Material

Engraving; only state

Inscription
Signed at lower left: Bruegel.Inventor·; at lower right: COCK · EX · 1557; at upper left on the lid of the cabinet on the wall: PVAHE [in monogram]; inscribed in the margin: PARISIOS STOLIDUM SI QUIS TRANSMITTAT ASELLUM · SI HIC EST ASINUS NON ERIT ILLIC EQUUS · Al reijst den esele ter schoolen om leeren, ist eenen esele hij en sal gheen peert weder keeren [If you send a stupid ass to Paris, if it is an ass here, it will not be a horse there. / Although the ass goes to school in order to learn, if it is an ass, it will not return (as) a horse]
Dimensions
30.2 cm x 22 cm
Keywords
Proverbs

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