Allegory of Intellect, Memory, and Will
1625
Artist, French, 1598 - 1688

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (cut within platemark): 54.3 x 37 cm (21 3/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2003.8.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Montaiglon 1856, no. 372
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
P. Mariette, 1679 (Lugt 1788). Gust. Schulz (not in Lugt). (Lutz Riester, Freiburg); purchased 2002 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480 - 1650, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Mary adn Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2009 - 2010, cat. by Emily J. Peters.
Bibliography
1856
Montaiglon, Anatole de. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville. Abbeville: P.Briex, 1856: no. 372
1939
IFF (1600)
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: Simon Vouet / Parisien pinxit / Cl. Mellan Gallus sculp. Romae 1625; lower center in plate: Intellectus et Memoria...Nescia consilij pectore facta bicors
Watermarks
bunch of grapes
Wikidata ID
Q76337532