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)

Justice ('Iusticia'), from: The Seven Virtues

已結束2021年12月9日

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PHILIPS GALLE (1537-1612) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)
Justice ('Iusticia'), from: The Seven Virtues
engraving, 1559, on laid paper, watermark Gothic P, a very good, dark impression of New Hollstein's only state, published by Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp, trimmed to or just inside the platemark, retaining a fillet of blank paper outside of the borderline on all sides
Sheet 223 x 290 mm.

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The preparatory drawing for this engraving, dated 1559 and signed by Bruegel, is in the Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels (inv. S.II..133707).
None of the catalogue sources makes a distinction between states. Only Lebeer (1969), distinguishes between two states of the plate: one in which the 'A' in 'VIVAT' is missing the middle bar, and a second one in which this 'A' is corrected, as in the present impression.

Maarten Bassens, who is currently preparing a new catalogue raisonné of prints after Bruegel, considers this an impression of the second, final state. We are grateful to Mr Bassens for this information, prior to publication.