The Triumph of Time

published 1574

Philip Galle

Artist, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Joannes Galle

Publisher, Flemish, probably 1600 - 1676

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1980.45.236

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 364, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1908

  • Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Philips Galle, Manfred Sellink and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 364, state iii/iii

Inscriptions

lower center, in image, in plate: TEMPVS OMNIA ET SINGVLA CONSVMENS; lower right center, in image, in plate: Petrus Bruegl inuen.; lower right, on a rock in the corner, in plate: Io Galle / excudebat; lower margin, in plate: Solis equus, Lunaeque, invectum quattuor Horis, / Signa per extenti duodena volubilis Anni, // Proripiunt Tempus: curru quod praepete secum / Cuncta rapit: comiti Morti non rapta relinquens. // Pone subit, cunctis rebus Fama vna superstes, / Gaetulo boue vecta, implens clangoribus orbem. (The horse of the sun and that of the moon rush Time forward; who, borne by the four seasons through the twelve signs of the rotating extensive year, bears off all things with him as he goes on his swift chariot, leaving what he has not seized to his companion Death. Behind them follows Fame, sole survivor of all things, borne on an elephant, filling the world with her trumpet blasts.) [translation by Wouter Bracke from Maarten Bassens and Joris van Grieken, eds., Bruegel in Black and White: The Complete Graphic Works. Brussels: KBR, 2019, p. 251, note 1.]

Wikidata ID

Q65576181

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