Allegory of Poverty Hindering Wit

1565/1570

Cornelis Cort

Artist, Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on heavy laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 42.6 x 28.5 cm (16 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.17.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hewrbert Bier, London); acquired 1984 by the NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

Bibliography

2005

  • Gamboni, Dario. "'Independent of Time and Place': On the Rise and Decline of a Modernist Ideal." In _Time and Place: The Geohistory of Art." Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Elizabeth Pilliod. Aldershot and Burlington, 2015: ix, 173, 181, 189, fig. 8.1.

Inscriptions

in later hand, across bottom verso in graphite: 8 / Renaissance /Gli manni [two illegible words] / Milan[ese?] / L .240 / [6?]4 18[4?] / NO.4252 X[??]Z / 11.

Wikidata ID

Q64540400

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