Justice

published 1559

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Philip Galle

Artist, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Philip Galle after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2118

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 312, State only

Artwork history & notes

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

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. 312, state only.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 119, 211, fig.2.49, 121.

Inscriptions

lower center, in image, in plate: IUSTICIA (Justice); lower margin, in plate: SCOPVS LEGIS ES, AVT VT EV[M] QVE[M] PVNIT EMENDET, AVT POENA / EIVS CAETEROS MELIORES REDDET AVT SVBLATIS MALIS CAETERI SECVRIORES VIVA[N]T. (The aim of law is either to correct him who is punished, or to improve the others by his example, or to provide that the population live more securely by removing wrongdoers.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 187.]

Wikidata ID

Q64963007

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