Avaritia (Avarice)

Pieter van der Heyden, Dutch, 1530 - 1575
after Pieter Bruegel, the elder, Netherlandish, 1520 - 1569

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1558

Engraving on laid paper

Impression: 8 15/16 × 11 11/16 in. (22.7 × 29.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

PR.968.54

Portfolio / Series Title

The Seven Deadly Sins

Publisher

Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp

Geography

Place Made: Netherlands, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

On view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: P. brueghel Inventor; Cock excud cum privileg 1558; monogram PAVE; inscribed, in plate, across bottom: Qvis metvx, avt pvdor est vnqvam Prperantis Avari [Dutch translation below]

Exhibition History

15th and 16th Century Plates from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 14-December 4, 1977.

Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.

Gold: Materiality, Morality, and Metaphor, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 14, 2024.

Northern Prints and Drawings, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, February 15-March 20, 1983.

Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.

Provenance

Zeitlin ver Brugge, Los Angeles, California; sold to present collection, 1968.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hollstein 128

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