Charity, published 1559

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series Title

The Seven Virtues

Medium

engraving

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 311, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.2120

Artists / Makers

Philip Galle (artist) Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

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 left, in image, in plate: H. cock excude.; lower center, in image, in plate: CHARITAS (Charity); lower right, in image, in plate: BRUEGEL. 1559; lower margin, in plate: SPERES TIBI ACCIDERE QVOD ALTERI ACCIDIT, ITA DEMVM EXCITABERIS AD OPEM FERENDAM / SI SVMPSERIS EIVS ANIMVM QVI OPEM TVNC IN MALIS CONSTITVTVS IMPLORAT (Expect what happens to others to happen to you; you will then and not till then be aroused to offer help only if you make your own the feelings of the man who appeals for help in the midst of adversity) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 181.]

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 264); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1952: Etchings and Other Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1952-1953, no cat.

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. 311.