Plate 36: Two Spotted Hounds, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in light red ink: CANES TIMIDI, VEHEMENTIVS LATRANT, QVAM
MORDE[N]T (Frightened dogs bark the loudest); center right in black ink: XXXVI; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in black ink: DIFFICILE CANEM VETVLVM ASSVESCERE LORIS. (It is hard to accustom an old dog to a leash)
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Acer odoratu sequitur Canis o[m/n]ia naso (With its keen nose, a dog follows every scent); lower center in brown ink: Non anis ancupibus monstrat, qua parte petatur: / Non docet infestos, currere cerva Canes.

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.

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