Ingenuity rewards diligence and punishes idleness, Young half-naked female personification of Ingenuity (Solertia) holds up an inkwell in front of a writing (or drawing) naked man on the right. Next to him sits a female personification adorned with a laurel wreath (the Poetry; the Inspiration?). , print maker: Cornelis Bos, (attributed to), print maker: Cornelis Massijs, (rejected attribution), after drawing by: Girolamo Sicciolante, (attributed to), c. 1540 - before 1544, paper, engraving, height 348 mm × width 471 mm

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