Inscription
Inscribed in pen and brown ink on the house at upper left: Domus Hominis Prudentis..; the figures standing at left labeled: Cupiditas Vite, Medicus, and Pharmacopehela; the woman with a spear at center labeled: Ratio; inscribed in the wheels on the cart on which she stands; Vir and Prudens; on the chariot at upper right: Saturnus; on the coffin-shaped cart at right center: Finis Vite; and on the chariot at lower right: Mars
Provenance
(Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 July 1937, lot 64); (sale, London, Sotheby's, 15-17 November 1937, lot 546); (sale, London, Maggs Bros., Ltd., catalogue 709, 1941, no. 30); (purchased by William H. Schab Gallery via Paul Graupe); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.
Associated Names
Graupe, PaulWoodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian
Exhibition History
- 1973
- Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1973-74, no. 34 (illustrated).
- 2006
- Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
- 2009
- Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 20-23, no. 2d (color).
- 2017
- The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
- 1941
- Maggs Brothers. French Books and Prints, Incunabula, Bibles, and Bindings. Catalogue no. 709. London, 1941: no. 30.
- 1942
- Saxl, Fritz. "A Spiritual Encyclopedia of the Later Middle Ages." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942): 82-134.
- 1974
- Butler, Joseph T. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection II." Connoisseur 186 (1974): 56-57.
- 1983
- Massing, Jean Michel. "The Influence of Erasmus: Text and image in a French pre-emblematic manuscript." Manuscripts in the Fifty Years after the Invention of Printing (Colloquium Paper at the Warburg Institute) 1983: 75-82.
- 1987
- Massing, Jean Michel. "The Illustrations of Lucian's Imago Vitae Aulicae." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 50 (1987): 215-16.
- 1990
- Massing, Jean Michel. Du texte à l'image. La Calomnie d'Apelle et son iconographie. Strasbourg, 1990: 48, 67, 81, 93, 284-285, no. 8A, pl. 8A.
- 1994
- Colenbrander, H.Th. "Een serie tekeningen naar Erasmus' Adagia: Jean Perréal, de Maître aux Pieds-Bots en de Meester van de Legende van de H. Egidius." in Boeken in de late Middeleeuwen. Hermans and van der Hoek, eds. Groningen, 1994: 211-220.
- 1995
- Massing, Jean Michel. Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom. An Illustrated Moral Compendium for François 1er. London, 1995: 91-92, reprod. 174-175.
- 1995
- The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1995: 133, 135, 137, fig. 6.
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