Live Auction 17196Old Masters Day Sale
Follower of Pieter Bruegel I
Lot 119 PROPERTY OF A LADY

Follower of Pieter Bruegel I

Allegory of Pride

Closed5 July 2019

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GBP 77,500

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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)

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

Specialist note

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).