Title Plate with Two Foxes, from Fighting Chimeras and Scenes from Aesop's Fables

1594

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Engraving on paper
Dimensions: Sheet (trimme): 3 × 6.1 cm (1 3/16 × 2 7/16 in.)
Collection no.: 2023.46
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Nicolaes de Bruyn. Title Plate with Two Foxes, from Fighting Chimeras and Scenes from Aesop's Fables, 1594. Inventory 2023.46. Nicolaes de Bruyn; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/264802. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Existing creator authority Q7029366 explicitly identifies Chicago artist 3477 and NGA constituent 3634. Local biography years remain None / None; Chicago's numeric person fields remain 1571 / 1656, with object display 'Nicolaes de Bruyn \nFlemish, 1571–1656'. NGA's date wording 'Flemish, 1565/1571 - 1656' is retained separately. These source assertions identify the same creator through explicit identifiers and names; no biography or creator link is changed.

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

About this artwork

Title Plate with Two Foxes, from Fighting Chimeras and Scenes from Aesop's Fables — Nicolaes de Bruyn. 1594.

Medium: Engraving on paper. Dimensions: Sheet (trimme): 3 × 6.1 cm (1 3/16 × 2 7/16 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

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.

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