Everyman
Production date
1558
Collection
Object number
1854,0628.36
Material

Pen and brown ink, contours incised

Inscription
Signed at lower left: [B]rueghel 1558; inscribed at upper centre, below in the picture: nymant en ckent sy selve[n] [nobody knows himself]; at upper centre, above in the picture: NEMO [in reverse] [no one]
Dimensions
24.1 cm x 20.8 cm

'Elck' or 'Everyman', study for a print; five figures labelled 'Elck' are rummaging through a pile of bales and objects, a bearded old man at centre wearing spectacles and examining a lamp, another figure searching in a sack in left background, another in a barrel in right foreground, and another at left in a basket, behind at right two 'Elcks' are having a tug-of-war, an army and tents in the distance.

Other artworks of this artist

The Painter and the Buyer
Desidia (Sloth)
The Descent of Christ into Limbo
The Last Judgment
Big Fish Eat Little Fish
Village Outside the Walls of a Fortress
Spring
Landscape with a fortified town
Mountain Landscape with River and Travellers
Bears in a forest
Avaritia (Avarice)
Dulle Griet
Twelve Proverbs
The Magpie on the Gallows
The Gooseherd
Summer