Plate 14: A Civet, a Lynx, and a Hyena Eating a Dog, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in pink ink: COELU COELI DOMINO TERRAM AUTEM DEDIT FILIIS HOMINUM (The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's, but the earth hath he given to the children of men, Psalms 115:16); lower center in violet ink: Nil adeo natura ferum, nil sedula fecit Horrendum, quod sit duris mortalibus horror (from Natale Conti)
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Et quae modo faemina tergo / Passa marem, nunc esse marem miramur hyaenam; lower center in brown ink: Exuinis Memphita niger coopertus Hyaenae, / Adversam sortem, se domuisse monet. A:S: (Stockelius?)

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Exhibition History

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, = 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

Bibliography

1769

Schober, Sarah-Marie. "Taming the Untamable: Early modern civet cats and the nature-culture dichotomy" Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek vol 71 (Humans and Other Animals, ed. Eric Jorink, Joanna Woodall, and Edward H. Wouk) (2021): 41-42 and fig. 7.

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