Allegory of Human Nature

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jan Saenredam

Title

Allegory of Human Nature

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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c. 1600

Medium

Engraving on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered upper center: "Naturae sequitur semina quisque suae"; lower center: "CKetel inven et figuravit JSaenred sculp. JRazet divulgavit / Robbertus de Baudous excudebat." and in lower cartouche: "Benefico splendidoque Sioni a Lus hunc humanae indolis typum Jac. Razetus in propensae voluntatis et studij tesseram libens lubensque dedic."

Dimensions

Sheet: 52.7 × 37.1 cm (20 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.); secondary support: 61.9 × 45.6 cm (24 3/8 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

Reference Number

2023.1224

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