Pride, published 1558

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series Title

The Seven Deadly Sins

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.6 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)

sheet: 28.4 × 37.9 cm (11 3/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 23, State only

Accession Number

1964.8.430

Artists / Makers

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

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

Hieronymus Cock (publisher) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center, in image, in plate: SVPERBIA; lower left, in image, in plate: Cock excud cum privileg 1558; lower center, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; lower right, in cartouche, in plate: .P. brueghel . Inuentor.; in lower margin, in plate: NEMO SVPERBVS AMAT SVPEROS, NEC AMATVR AB ILLIS. (Nobody who is proud loves the gods above, nor is her loved by them.) / Hovardye werdt van godt boven al ghehaet Tsegelyk werdt godt weder van hoverdye versmaet (Pride is hated by God above all, at the same time God is abused by Pride) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 151.]

Exhibition History

1995: Adriaen Brouwer: Youth Making a Face, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, as Suberbia (Pride) by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder; engraved by Pieter van der Heyden.

2015: The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT, 2015.

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. 23, state only.