Pieter Bruegel's Children's Games, Folly, and Chance Author(s): Sandra Hindman Source: The Art Bulletin, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 447-475 Published by: College Art Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3050145 . Accessed: 04/11/2013 10:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. College Art Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Art Bulletin. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 129.100.254.149 on Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:51:31 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 1 Pieter Bruegel, Children'sGames. Vienna, KunsthistorischesMuseum (photo: Museum) Pieter Bruegel's Children's Games, Folly, and Chance Sandra Hindman I. Introduction Early information on Pieter Bruegel's painting, Children's Khinderspill, appeared first in a 1594 inventory of the Games (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), is sparse but collection in Brussels of the Governor of the Netherlands, unambiguous.1 Signed by the artist and dated 1560, Archduke Ernest.2 In 1604, Carel van Mander described Children's Games includes depictions of more than ninety the painting briefly as one "with all manner of children's actual games (Fig.