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PHILIPS GALLE (1537-1612) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)
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PHILIPS GALLE (1537-1612) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)

Fortitude ('Fortitudo'), from: The Seven Virtues

Closed24 January 2023

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PHILIPS GALLE (1537-1612) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)
Fortitude ('Fortitudo'), from: The Seven Virtues
engraving, 1560, on laid paper, watermark Hand with Letters surmounted by a Flower (this variant not in Briquet nor Heawood), a fine impression of the first state (of two), published by Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp, trimmed to or just outside the borderline, retaining a fillet of blank paper outside of the borderline on three sides, otherwise in good condition
Sheet 222 x 287 mm.

Specialist note

The preparatory drawing for this engraving, dated 1559 and signed by Bruegel, is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (inv. 189).

Maarten Bassens, who is currently preparing a new catalogue raisonné of prints after Bruegel, considers this an impression of the only state. The formerly described "second" state is a reworked first state in pen and brown ink.
We are grateful to Mr Bassens for this information.