Skip to Main Content

Inscription

upper center in black ink: Melior est CANIS vivus Leoni mortuo. Ecc[es].9. (“For a living dog is better than a dead lion.” Ecclesiastes 9:4) (Latin Vulgate Bible) / upper center in (gold?): CANIS FESTINA[N]S CAECOS PARIT CATVLOS.; center right in brown ink: XXXVII.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; lower center in red ink: PERICVLOSV[M] EST, CANE[M] INTESTINA GVSTARE.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Luciferi primo cum sydere, frigida rura / Carpamus, dum mane novum dum gramina canent / Et ros in tenera, pecori gratissimus herba est.; lower center in brown ink: Pastor inequali modulatur arundine carmen, / Nec desunt comites, sedula turba 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.

Related Content

  • Sort by:
  • Results layout:
Show  results per page
The image compare list is empty.