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The Seven Deadly Sins

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02.06.2021 14:00UTC +02:00
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VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
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Lot 975 | The Seven Deadly Sins
BRUEGHEL, PIETER THE ELDER
1526/30 Brueghel - 1569 Brussels


Title: The Seven Deadly Sins.
Series of seven copperplate engravings, engraved by Pieter van der Heyden (1530-1572) for Hieronymus Cock (1518-1570).
Date: 1558.
Technique: Copperplate engraving on paper.
Mounting: Mounted.
Measurement: 23 x 29cm.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed individually.
Exhibitions:
"Mémoires du Future. La Collection Olbricht" Exhibition La Maison Rouge, Paris, 2011/2012;
"Wonderful - Humboldt, Krokodil und Polke" Exhibition me Collectors Room, Berlin, 2012/2013.

Provenance:
Collection Prof. Dr. Thomas Olbricht, Essen.

The Seven Deadly Sins consist of seven individual sheets: Avaritia (greed), Desidia (sloth), Gula (gluttony), Invidia (envy), Ira (wrath), Superbia (pride) and Luxuria (inordinate desire or lust).
Pieter Brueghel the Elder drew the series in 1558 before designing the series of the Seven Virtues a few years later, which was published by Philippe Galle.
The paper bears the double-headed eagle as a watermark.

For the still young artist, the drawings formed an important basis for his fame and later success as a painter. In addition, they brought him a secure source of income when engraved as prints, so that he was able to find his own style, which was continued by his sons after his death. After he set off for Italy in 1552, he found a publisher in the Antwerp-based Hieronymus Cock, who distributed the drawings as copper engravings in larger editions.
The everyday violence in the form of the Inquisition or executions in the run-up to the war of the Netherlands for independence from the Spanish crown is reflected in the series shown here. The imaginative and grotesque figures are strongly reminiscent of his predecessor Hieronymus Bosch.
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