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Envy


Invidia
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)
about 1558

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 22.6 x 30 cm (8 7/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number64.716
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Van Bastelaer 130
Signed Signed within image, lower left: brueghel.Inuet; cock.excud.cum priuil.; right of lower center: P/AVE [monogram]
Marks Watermark [not identified]; MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 64.716
InscriptionsIn plate, within image, below the figure of envy: INVIDIA.
In plate, in lower margin: INVIDIA HORRENDVM MONSTRVM, SÆVISSIMA PESTIS. [Envy is a monster to be feared, and a most severe plague] / Een onsterffelÿcke doot es nÿt / en wreede peste Een beest die haer seluen eet / met valschen moleste [Envy is an eternal death and a terrible plague, a beast which devours itself with false troubles]
ProvenanceMarch 10, 1964, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 62, 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."