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Sloth


Desidia
The Seven Deadly Sins
Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, about 1530–after March 1572)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
1558

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 22.8 x 29.9 cm (9 x 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number64.715
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Van Bastelaer 126; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. III) 126 (after Bruegel)
Signed Signed in plate, lower left: brueghel.Inuentor.; lower center: P/AVE [monogram]; lower right: H.Cock. excud. cum.priuileg. 1558.
Marks Watermark [not identified]; verso, MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 64.715
InscriptionsIn plate, within image, at lower right: H.Cock. excud. cum.priuileg. 1558
In plate, below the sleeping figure of Sloth: DESIDIA
ProvenanceMarch 10, 1964, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 58, sold to P. &. D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, on behalf of the MFA [see note]. (Accession Date: May 13, 1964)

NOTE: Sale lots described in the Sotheby's catalogue as "Collected in the 16th Century / From a Continental Princely Collection."