Inscription
lower left, in image, in plate: COCK EXC.; lower center, in image, in plate: FORTITVDO (Fortitude); lower right, in image, in plate: BRVEGEL INVENTOR; lower margin, in plate: ANIMVM VINCERE, IRACVNDIAM COHIBERE, CAETERAQ[VE] VITIA ET, AFFECTVS / COHIBERE, VERA FORTITVDO EST. (To conquer one's impulses, to restrain anger and the other vices and emotions: this is the true fortitude.) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 189.]
Bibliography
- 1908
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- 1993
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