Avarice, published 1558

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series Title

The Seven Deadly Sins

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.5 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)

sheet: 28.5 × 37.6 cm (11 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 25, State only

Accession Number

1964.8.426

Artists / Makers

Pieter van der Heyden (artist) Netherlandish, active c. 1551/1572

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Hieronymus Cock (publisher) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Image Use

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Inscription

bottom center, in image, in plate: AVARITIA; lower left, in image, in plate: .P. brueghel. Inuentor.; lower left center, in image, in plate: Cock. excud. cum privileg. 1558; lower center, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; in lower margin, in plate: QVIS METVS, AVT PVDOR EST VNQVAM PROPERANTIS AVARI? (Does the greedy miser ever possess fear or shame?) / Eere, beleeftheyt, scaemte, noch godlyck vermaen / En siet die scrapende ghierichheyt niet aen (Scraping Avarice sees neither honor nor courtesy, shame nor divine admonition) [translations from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 147.]

Exhibition History

1965: Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 21.

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. 25, state only.