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...fully a third of the pictures on display last week in Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library seemed minor masterpieces. Yet they were done mainly for pleasure, to while away an hour in the open, or as preliminary sketches for more ambitious work. Entitled "Landscape Drawings and Watercolors from Bruegel to Cezanne," the exhibition spans four little centuries of landscape art with 94 delicate little pictures...
Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face...
...Aberlady, Scotland. It had cost only $50, back in 1834, and no one in the family considered it of any importance. But last summer, Major Archibald Hope decided to send it out for a cleaning. In one corner, restorers discovered the date 1565, the signature of the elder Pieter Bruegel...
Last week, authenticated as Bruegel's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, the little 9 by 13-in. wooden panel brought $31,000 at a London auction...
...from the 15th to the 17th Century. The Oxford English Dictionary describes the codpiece as "a bagged appendage to the front of the close-fitting hose or breeches [which was] often conspicuous and ornamental." When the painting was being restored, in 1942, the codpieces were revealed. TIME printed Bruegel's picture the way he painted...