Pieter Balten
Also recorded as Peeter Custodis · Custodis Balthazar · Pieter Baltenius · Peeter Balthazarsz
Pieter Balten
Master of the Prodigal Son · CC0
- Born
- 1525 · Antwerp.
- Died
- 1584 · Antwerp.
- Nationality
- Habsburg Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · print publisher · copper engraver · writer
- Fields
- flemish · landscape
- Known for
- The St Martin's Day Kermis · A Performance of the Farce Een Cluyte van Plaeyerwater (A Clod from Plaeyerwater) at a Flemish Kermis
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Subjects and genres recorded for the work are flemish and landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp. Works named in the authority record are The St Martin's Day Kermis and A Performance of the Farce 'Een Cluyte van Plaeyerwater' (A Clod from Plaeyerwater) at a Flemish Kermis. Work by Pieter Balten is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Noordbrabants Museum, Rijksmuseum and Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
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1- Flemish paintingMovement
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