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1563 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

For the medieval supergun from Ghent, see Dulle Griet.

Dulle Griet (anglicized as Dull Gret), also known as Mad Meg, is a figure of Flemishfolklore who is the subject of a 1563 oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

The painting depicts a virago, Dulle Griet, who leads an army of women to pillage Hell,^[1] and is currently held and exhibited at the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, in Antwerp.

History and description

A restoration of the painting in 2018 revealed that it was painted in 1563, shortly after the painter had moved to Brussels.^[2] Previously, the signature and the date on the painting had been illegible, and it was assumed that it was painted two years earlier,^[3] or, based on its close compositional and stylistic similarity to The Fall of the Rebel Angels and The Triumph of Death, one year earlier.

Like those pictures, Dulle Griet owes