# The Ruins of Castle Merxem, near Antwerp

- By: Jan Brueghel the Elder (Netherlandish, Brussels 1568–1625 Antwerp)
- Date: 1610
- Medium: Pen and brown ink with pink, blue, gray, and yellow washes
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 12 5/16in. (16.5 x 31.2cm)
- Culture: Netherlandish
- Credit line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, and Louis V. Bell and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2001
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/347299)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP801184.jpg
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