Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Pieter van der Heyden|Hieronymus Cock
The Descent of Christ Into Limbo
1551
Engraving; first state of two
26.2 × 34.5 cm (10.3 × 13.6 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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