Envy

Requires Photography

Invidia
The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, 1525–1569)
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

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

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."