Lot 119
119
Follower of Pieter Bruegel I
PROPERTY OF A LADY
Follower of Pieter Bruegel I

Allegory of Pride

Details
Follower of Pieter Bruegel I
Allegory of Pride
oil on panel
8 3/8 x 12 in. (21 x 30.5 cm.)
inscribed 'SVPERBIA' (lower centre)
Provenance
Duca de Ferrari collection, Genoa, by 1946.
I. Bossi collection, Genoa, by 1956, as 'P. Brueghel il Vecchio'.
Private collection, Antwerp, by 1967.
Literature
L. Collobi Ragghianti, Dipinti fiamminghi in Italia, 1420-1570: Catalogo, Bologna, 1990, p. 269, no. 547.
Exhibited
Genoa, Palazzo Reale, Mostra della pittura antica in Liguria dal Trecento al Cinquecento, 28 June-30 July 1946, no. 39.

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Lot Essay

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

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