Envy

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: 22.7 × 29.6 cm (8 15/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 28.4 × 37.3 cm (11 3/16 × 14 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.427

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 26, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 22.

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. 26, state i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower center, in image, in plate: INVIDIA; lower left, in image, in plate: brueghel. Inuet; lower left, in image, in plate: Cock. excud. cum privil.; lower center, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; in lower margin, in plate: INVIDIA HORRENDVM MONSTRVM, SAEVISSIMA PESTIS. (Envy is a monster to be feared, and a most severe plague.) / Een onsterffelycke doot es nyt, en wreede peste / Een beest die haer selven eet, met valschen moleste (Envy is an eternal death and a terrible plague, a beast which devours itself with false troubles) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 155.]

Wikidata ID

Q65511677

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