Seven Deadly Sins, The (Superbia) - London

Anonymous

Location:

London - England - Sotheby's 2019 Auctioned on 5 July 2019 lot 119

Material:

Oil on panel

Dimensions:

21 x 30,5

Unverfehrt catalogue:

De Vrij catalogue:

More information

Representing the vice of Pride, this composition belongs to a series of prints of the Seven Deadly Sins after drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Fondation Custodia, Paris, inv. no. 465), engraved by Pieter van der Heyden.

A similar painting was for sale at De Jonckheere Gallery in Genova (10-12-2021)

Credit line:

History:

Duca de Ferrari collection, Genoa, by 1946. I. Bossi collection, Genoa, by 1956, as 'P. Brueghel il Vecchio'. Private collection, Antwerp, by 1967.

Literature:

Literature: F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, III, Amsterdam, 1949, p. 277, no. 127).

Source:

Website 'christies.com'

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