The Land of Cockaigne. Artist: After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda () ca. 1525-1569 Brussels); Attributed to Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, ca. 1525-1569). Dimensions: Plate: 8 3/16 x 11 in. (20.8 x 27.9 cm)Sheet: 9 1/8 x 11 15/16 in. (23.1 x 30.4 cm). Date: after 1570.The Land of Cockaigne, known in Dutch literature as Luilekkerland (country of the lazy and gluttonous), was described in very popular stories as a mythical place where there is no need to work, and where food and drink are so abundant that we need only open our mouths to take in what we desire. In this print, which accurately follows in reverse Bruegel's 1567 painting of the same title (Munich, Alte Pinakothek), three figures--a soldier, a farmer, and a clerk--are shown sleeping off the effects of their overindulgence, or waiting for more drink to imbibe--as the clerk does at left. Some of the remains of their meal are strewn on the platform encircling the tree in the center, while the mountai