Plate 7 of 50

Allegory

Allegorie

Hendrick Goltzius

In a museum

Plates 6 and 7 share one sheet in the portfolio.

The drawing

Two nude allegorical figures represent aspects of artistic creation, accompanied by drawing implements and Goltzius's emblematic imagery. The sheet is monogrammed and dated 1612.

Becker, 1922

As Felix Becker published it in 1922.

Attribution: Hendrick Goltzius
Title as printed: Allegorie
Title in English: Allegory
Date: 1612
Medium and size: Pen and colored chalks, 17 × 12 cm
Inscription: Monogrammed and dated 1612; motto read by Becker as “Eer boven golt”
Collection in 1922: Dr. Curt Otto, Leipzig (formerly Heinrich Wilhelm Campe)

Today

Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.

Status: In a museum
Where is it now?: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1970.109, catalogued as “Allegory on the Art of Drawing with the Emblem of the Artist.”
Attribution today: Hendrick Goltzius
Title today: Allegory on the Art of Drawing with the Emblem of the Artist
Note: Harvard’s online record has not been confirmed to cite Becker 1922.

The sheet in this copy

Full sheet, this copy (shared by plates 6 and 7) — plate 7 — Full sheet, this copy (shared by plates 6 and 7)

Printed caption, this copy — plate 7 — Printed caption, this copy

Sources

Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 7.
Harvard Art Museums — official collection recordhttps://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/295714