Artworks · Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Dutch

Joseph Distributing Grain to Egypt

1644 · Etching from two plates on ivory laid paper

Image: 45.1 × 67 cm (17 13/16 × 26 7/16 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 67.1 cm (17 13/16 × 26 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Corsica seated before satyrs on the bank of a river, from a pair of plates for Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor fido"

1640 · Etching

sheet: 3 7/16 x 4 3/4 in. (8.8 x 12.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 2: Calidarium at the Baths of Diocletian, from "The Ruins of Rome"

1640 · Etching

sheet: 3 7/16 x 4 3/4 in. (8.8 x 12.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cascades near Ponte della Trave, from "The Ruins of Rome"

1639 · Etching

sheet: 4 1/8 x 2 11/16 in. (10.5 x 6.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ruins of the Colosseum, plate 10 from The Ruins of Rome

1639 · Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Plate: 10.4 × 6.4 cm (4 1/8 × 2 9/16 in.); Sheet: 10.8 × 6.8 cm (4 5/16 × 2 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Grotto and Friars, from The Ruins of Rome

1635 · Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Plate: 10 × 6.1 cm (3 15/16 × 2 7/16 in.); Sheet: 10.2 × 6.3 cm (4 1/16 × 2 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Preaching of John the Baptist

1634 · Oil on wood

21 1/2 x 29 5/8 in. (54.6 x 75.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Resurrection

1630 · Oil on panel

35.5 × 20.7 cm (14 × 8 1/8 in.); Framed: 50.8 × 36.4 × 6.4 cm (20 × 14 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli

1622 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite, with touches of graphite over the washes, on cream laid paper

39.3 × 27.6 cm (15 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Italian Village

1620 · Graphite, brush and sepia on paper

H x W: 23.9 × 15.1 cm (9 7/16 × 5 15/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Roman View

1610 · Watercolor over red chalk; framing lines in pen and black ink

Overall: 5 7/8 x 4 3/16 in. (15 x 10.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View of Tivoli

1610 · Pen and brown ink, brown wash over traces of black chalk.

12 15/16 x 17 1/16 in. (32.8 x 43.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colosseum

1610 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

10 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (26.7 x 19.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Travelers before a Ruin

1609 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on card

18.6 × 29 cm (7 3/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rocks and Mountain Path, Figures and Town Below

1598 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper

20.8 × 28.3 cm (8 1/4 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago