Art, literature & history
The Ruins of Castle Merxem, near Antwerp
1610
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with pink, blue, gray, and yellow washes
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 6 1/2 x 12 5/16in. (16.5 x 31.2cm)
- Collection no.
- 2001.638
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jan Brueghel the Elder. The Ruins of Castle Merxem, near Antwerp. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Ruins of Castle Merxem, near Antwerp — Jan Brueghel the Elder. 1610.
Medium: Pen and brown ink with pink, blue, gray, and yellow washes. Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 12 5/16in. (16.5 x 31.2cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, and Louis V. Bell and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2001.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.