Sloth

published 1558

Pieter van der Heyden

Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.8 × 29.7 cm (9 × 11 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.5 × 38 cm (11 1/4 × 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.431

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 22, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 26.

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. 22, state only.

Inscriptions

lower center, in image, in plate: DESIDIA; lower left, in image, in plate: brueghel. Inuentor.; lower center, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; lower right, in image, in plate: .H. Cock. excud. cum. privileg. 1558.; in lower margin, in plate: SEGNITIES ROBVR FRANGIT, LONGA OCIA NERVOS. (Sluggishness breaks strength, long idleness [breaks] the nerves.) / Traechheyt maeckt machteloos, en verdroocht / Die senuwen dat de mensch niewers toe en doocht. (Sloth makes [man] powerless and dries out the nerves until man is good for nothing.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 157.]

Wikidata ID

Q65511681

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