Avarice (Avaritia), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins
Medium
Engraving; first state of two
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 11/16 in. (22.5 x 29.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.55.21
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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About the Artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Pieter van der Heyden|Hieronymus Cock · 1525–1569
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a pioneering Netherlandish painter of the Renaissance, was born around 1525–1530, likely in Breda in the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Netherlands). Little is known of his early family background, but he apprenticed under the Antwerp painter and designer Pieter Coecke van Aelst between approximately 1545 and 1550, mastering tapestry design, architecture, and painting tech...