The Misanthrope Robbed by the World
c. 1568
Artist, Flemish, 1549 - 1618 or after
Johan Wierix after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Accession Number
1964.8.438
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 1863, State only
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1965
Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 19.
1967
When Reason Dreams: A Selection of Prints from Five Centuries Illustrating Artistic Concerns with the Imagination, the Fantastic and the Grotesque, University of South Florida, Tampa; Duke University, Durham, NC; University of Florida, Gainesville; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 11, repro.
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. (Wieriex family, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1863, state only.
Inscriptions
lower left, in image, in plate: .IH.W.; in sky at top center, in plate: Je porte dueil voijant le monde, / Qui en tant de fraudes abonde. (I wear mourning, seeing the world / That abounds in so many frauds.); in margin around image, in plate: De sulck draecht rou = om dat de weerelt is onghetrou, Die meeste ghebruijcken minst recht en reden. Weijnich leefter nou = also hij leuen sou, Men rooft men treckt elck steeckt vol gheueijsde seden. (He wears a sackcloth because the world is unfaithful, / Most people act without right nor reason, Few now live as one should live, / One robs, one grabs, everyone is full of feigned morals.) [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. 269, notes 5 and 6.]
Wikidata ID
Q65508810