Temperance
published 1559
Artist, Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612
Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570
Artist After, Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569
Philip Galle after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 22.4 x 28.8 cm (8 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
sheet: 22.7 x 29.3 cm (8 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.2115
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 315, State i/ii
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
Exhibition History
1989
Image and Word, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, 1989.
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. 315, state i/ii.
Inscriptions
lower center, on the hem of the central figure's clothes, in plate: TEMPERANTIA (Temperance); lower right, in image, in plate: BRVEGEL; lower margin, in plate: VIDENDVM, VT NEC VOLVPTATI DEDITI PRODIGI ET LVXVRIOSI / APPAREAMVS, NEC AVARA TENACITATE SORDIDI AVT OBSCVRI EXISTAMVS (We must look to it that, in the devotion to sensual pleasures, we do not become wasteful and luxuriant, but also that we do not, because of miserly greed, live in filth and ignorance) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 191.]
Wikidata ID
Q64963000