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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G8649
People
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)
Title
Justice
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Seven Cardinal Virtues
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1560
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276068

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 22 × 28.7 cm (8 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: IVSTICIA
  • inscription: lower center, in plate:
    SCOPVS LEGIST EST, AVT VT EV QVĒ PVNIT E MENDET, AVT POENA / EIVS CAETEROS MELIORES REDDET AVT SVBLATIS MALIS CAETERI SECVRIORES VIVAT.
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: lebruegle

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Keppel & Co.], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1927

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/i
Standard Reference Number
Bastelaer no. 135; Hollstein 135; New Hollstein 16; Lebeer no. 33

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G8649
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986

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