Seven Deadly Sins, The (Invidia - Jealousy) - Basel
Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (1525 - 1569)
1557
Location:
Basel - Switzerland - Private collection 1937
Material:
Drawing
Dimensions:
22 x 30
Unverfehrt catalogue:
De Vrij catalogue:
More information
This is the original drawing of Pieter Bruegel the Older. Similar engraves/etchings (whether or not in mirror image), made by Pieter van der Heijden, can be seen for example in:
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Nr. 26.72.46)
the Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch ( Inv.nr. 07675.06)
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M88.91.438)
Auction Dorotheum Vienna 2018
Museum Boijmans van Beunigen in Rotterdam (BdH 1084(PK)
the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (RP-P-1887-12303)
The KBR (Royal Library of Belgium)
the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Amtwerp
The National Gallery of Art in Washington (Rosenwald Collection 1964.8.427)
auction at Christies in Londen on December 9, 2021 lot 62.
Credit line:
History:
1747-1825 Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon in London - 19.5.1826 lot 593 Auction Masson St Maurice - Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919) - 10.6.1920 Auction at Galerie George Petit - Anton Wilhelmus Mari Mensing (1866-1931) - 29.4.1937 Auctioned by Frederik Muller - 1937 Acquired by Robert van Hirsch in Basel - Switzerland
