Apollo, Diana, and Time with the Cyclic Vicissitudes of Human Life

c. 1561

Maarten de Vos

Artist, Netherlandish, 1532 - 1603

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite, incised for transfer on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 15.7 x 22.9 cm (6 3/16 x 9 in.)
    support: 20.8 x 28.1 cm (8 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.73.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Victor Winthrop Newman [born 1860], New York (Lugt 2540); J. Barnard, St. Helens; (P.&D. Colnaghi, 1967); (Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (Lugt undesc), by 1989); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. Amsterdam, 1989: no. 93.

Wikidata ID

Q64594539


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