Desidia (De luiheid)
Artist
Production date
1558
Collection
Object number
816/2
Material

Engraving; only state

Inscription
Signed at lower left: brueghel·Inventor·; at lower right: ·H· Cock·excud·cum·privileg·1558·; at lower centre: PVAHE [in monogram]; inscribed at lower centre: DESIDIA; in the margin: SEGNITIES ROBUR FRANGIT, LONGA OCIA NERVOS· [Sluggishness breaks strength, long idleness (breaks) the nerves]/ Traechheijt maeckt machteloos, en verdroocht Die senuwen dat de mensch niewers toe en doocht
Dimensions
29.1 cm x 23 cm

Other artworks of this artist

The Painter and the Buyer
Desidia (Sloth)
The Descent of Christ into Limbo
The Last Judgment
Big Fish Eat Little Fish
Village Outside the Walls of a Fortress
Spring
Landscape with a fortified town
Mountain Landscape with River and Travellers
Bears in a forest
Avaritia (Avarice)
Dulle Griet
Twelve Proverbs
The Magpie on the Gallows
The Gooseherd
Summer