National Gallery of Art · Print
Anger
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Date
- published 1558
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 22.5 × 29.6 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 28.5 × 37.3 cm (11 1/4 × 14 11/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1964.8.425
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1551 to 1600
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- The Seven Deadly Sins
Subjects and terms
- Netherlandish
- Woman
- engraving
- Weapons
- animal
- Building
- Figures
Inscription
lower left, in image, in plate: .P. brueghel. Inuentor.; lower center, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; lower center, in image, in plate: IRA; lower right, in image, in plate: .H. Cock. excude. Cum gratia et privilegio. 1558.; lower margin, in plate: ORA TVMENT IRA, NIGRESCVNT SANGVINE VENAE. (Anger makes the face swell up, and the veins grow black with blood.) / Gramscap doet den mont swillen / en verbittert den moet / Sy beroert den gheest / en maeckt swert den bloet (Anger makes the mouth swell, and embitters the nerves; it disturbs the spirit, and blackens the blood) [Latin translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 158.]
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