The Last Judgment, published 1558

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.5 × 29.3 cm (8 7/8 × 11 9/16 in.)

sheet: 28.4 × 37.3 cm (11 3/16 × 14 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 8, State i/ii

Accession Number

1964.8.424

Artists / Makers

Pieter van der Heyden (artist) Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, in cartouche, in plate: .Brueghel. Inuet; lower center, in image, in plate: H. Cock. excude. Cum. privileg. 1558.; lower right, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; lower margin, at left, in plate: VENITE. BENEDICTI. PATRIS. MEI. IN. REGNVM. AETERNVM. / ITE. MALEDICTI. PATRIS. MEI. IN. IGNEM. SEMPITERNVM. (Come you, blessed by my father, into the Eternal Kingdom, and you, cursed by my father, go into the everlasting fire.); lower margin, at right, in plate: Compt ghy gebenedyde myns vaders hier / En ghaet ghy vermaledyde in dat eeuwighe vier. (Come you, blessed by my father, here, and you, the cursed, go into the everlasting fire.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 163.]

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. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 8, state i/ii.