Inscription
in plate, beneath the figure of Fortitude, lower center: FORTITVDO; lower left: COCK EXC; lower right: BRVEGEL INVENTOR; in plate, in margin below image, lower left to right: ANIMVM VINCERE, IRACVNDIAM COHIBERE CAETERAQ VITIA ETAFFECTVS/COHIBERE VERA FORTITVDO EST.
Signed
not signed
Marks
watermark (not identified); verso, MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 3199/6/7; in graphite: C. 19787 [Colnaghi inventory number]; Van Bast: 137
Provenance
Acquired by the MFA July, 1930
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
about 1560
- Designed by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish, about 1525–1569
- Possibly engraved by Philips Galle, Netherlandish, 1537–1612
- Publisher Hieronymus Cock, Netherlandish, 1510–1570
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Bastelaer 137 [?state]
Dimensions
Sheet: 22 x 28.8 cm (8 11/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
Accession Number
30.1078.6
Medium or Technique
Engraving