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[BRUEGEL THE ELDER, Pieter] - VAN DER HEYDEN, Pieter

"Desidia (1558) ""Sloth"" from ""The Seven Deadly Sins"""

€2.800 - €3.600

Tool engraving (22.4 x 29.1 cm), very sm. margins, with engraver's monogr. 'brueghel . inventor', 'H. Cock excud. cum privileg', title 'Desidia', date and Latin/Dutch caption 'Segnities robvr fragit, longa ocia nervos ...' Three small rest. affecting the edges of the pl., 1 small lack of paper in the with margin right upper corner. Under passe-partout and preserved in a modern half cloth portfolio. Nice impression

Only state. From the series of ""The Seven Deadly Sins"".
Ref.: Batselaer 126; Hollstein 126; Lebeer 19. The personification of sloth, a shabbily dressed woman, demonstratively sleeps away the time in the central foreground, resting her weight on the back of an ass

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