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The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa
The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa is an ink print by the Renaissance artist Pieter van der Heyden. It dates from 1570 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
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- Inscribed:lower left, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; lower right, in image, in plate: H. cock. excud. 1570.; lower right, in cartouche, in plate: Bruegel. inuentor.; in lower margin, in plate: MOPSO NISA DATVR, QVID NON SPEREMVS AMANTES. (Mopsus marries Nisa, what may not we lovers hope for.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 246.]
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Pieter van der Heyden (c. 1530 - after March 1572) was a Flemish printmaker who is known for his reproductive engravings after works by leading Flemish painters and designers of the 16th century.
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