National Gallery of Art · Print
Avarice
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Date
- published 1558
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 22.5 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 28.5 × 37.6 cm (11 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1964.8.426
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1551 to 1600
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- The Seven Deadly Sins
Subjects and terms
- Netherlandish
- engraving
- Death
- City
- Monster
- Smoke
Inscription
bottom center, in image, in plate: AVARITIA; lower left, in image, in plate: .P. brueghel. Inuentor.; lower left center, in image, in plate: Cock. excud. cum privileg. 1558; lower center, in image, in plate: PAME [artist's monogram]; in lower margin, in plate: QVIS METVS, AVT PVDOR EST VNQVAM PROPERANTIS AVARI? (Does the greedy miser ever possess fear or shame?) / Eere, beleeftheyt, scaemte, noch godlyck vermaen / En siet die scrapende ghierichheyt niet aen (Scraping Avarice sees neither honor nor courtesy, shame nor divine admonition) [translations from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 147.]
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