DrawingsNetherlandish16th century

Wisdom Triumphing over Death, Evil, and Vice

1594

Artists

Bernart ProoijsArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Netherlandish

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

17.5 x 13.9 cm (6 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Téodor de Wyzewa, Paris (L. 2471, former mount, lower center). [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-22 February 1919, lot 203], sold. Private Collection, Cambridge, MA. Hurst and Hurst, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1983.

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