Temperantia (Temperance)
Artist
Production date
circa 1560
Collection
Object number
WA1863.7812
Material
Engraving; two states known
Inscription
Signed at lower right: BRUEGEL; inscribed on the hem of the garment of the woman in the centre: TEMPERANTIA; in the margin: VIDENDUM, UT NEC VOLUPTATI DEDITI PRODIGI ET LUXURIOSI/ APPAREAMUS, NEC AVARA TENACITATI SORDIDI AUT OBSCURI EXISTAMUS [We must look to it that, in the devotion to sensual pleasures, we do not become wasteful and luxuriant, but also that we do not, because of miserly greed, live in filth and ignorance]
Dimensions
29.4 cm x 22.5 cm
Keywords
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