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Spes
The Seven Virtues
Hope
Spes
The Seven Virtues
Probably by: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, 1537–1612)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
After: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (Netherlandish, about 1525–1569)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
about 1559
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 22.6 x 29.1 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number30.1078.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Bastelaer 133; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. III, Bruegel) 133; Sellink & Leesberg (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Philips Galle, part II) 310; Orenstein (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Breugel) 14 (I/I)
State
I/I
Signed
Not signed
Marks
No watermark; verso, MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 3199/2/7; in graphite: C19787 [Colnaghi inventory number]; Van Bast 133; 30
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, beneath the figure of Hope: SPES; lower left: BRVGEL.INV; lower right: cock excu.; in margin below image, lower left to right: IVCVNDISSIMA EST SPEI PERSVASIO, ET VITAE IMPRIMIS/NECESSARIA, INTER TOT AERVMNAS PENEQz INTOLERABILES. [Very pleasant is the conviction of hope and [it is] most necessary for life, amid many and almost unbearable hardships]
ProvenanceMay, 1930, C.G. Boerner sale, Leipzig, lot 174; May, 1930, purchased from that sale through P & D Colnaghi & Co. (dealer), London, by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1930)