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AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569) BY PHILIPS GALLE (1527-1612)
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AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569) BY PHILIPS GALLE (1527-1612)

Prudentia, from: The Seven Virtues

Closed10 December 2019

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AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569) BY PHILIPS GALLE (1527-1612)
Prudentia, from: The Seven Virtues
engraving, circa 1559-60, watermark Initials PP with Flower (Briquet 9652, dated Rotterdam 1559), a very fine, velvety impression of the first state (of two), printing with great contrasts and without wear, trimmed to or just outside the subject, lacking the text border, a tiny hole in the house at upper centre, two tiny thin spots and associated paper splits, a short repaired tear at the upper left sheet edge, generally in good condition
Sheet 209 x 296 mm.

Possibly with Colnaghi, London (possibly their stock number C. 22728(?) in pencil verso).
Walter Pach (1883-1958), New York; then by descent.

Specialist note

The present engraving from the collection of Walter Pach, art critic, advisor and one of the 'fathers' of the Armory Show in New York in 1913, is one of the finest impressions from Bruegel's series of the Seven Sins and Virtues we have seen on the market in recent years.