Lust

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 × 29.7 cm (8 15/16 × 11 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.1 × 37.2 cm (10 11/16 × 14 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.429

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 27, State only


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 24.

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. 27, state only.

Inscriptions

lower right, in image, in plate: LVXVRIA; lower left, in cartouche, in pate: brueghel. Inuentor. / H. Cock . excu. cu[m] privi; lower center, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; in lower margin, in plate: LVXVRIA ENERVAT VIRES, EFFOEMINAT ARTVS. (Lust enervates the strength, weakens the limbs.) / Luxurye stinckt, sy is vol onsuverheden / Sy breeckt die Crachten, en sy swackt die leden (Lechery stinks, it is dirty. It breaks [man's] powers and weakens limbs) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 153.]

Wikidata ID

Q65511679


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