Bruegel in Black and White: Three Grisailles Reunited

The ever-reliable Courtauld will, for the first time, bring together Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s three known grisaille paintings: works executed entirely in shades of grey, a genre of painting popular in Northern Europe in the fifteenth century. These austere, masterful panel pieces reveal a curious tangent to the Netherlandish artist's better-known, highly detailed landscape paintings.