Allegory with Personifications of painting (Pittura) and the merit (Merito). Allegory with Personifications of painting (Pittura) and the merit (Merito) amidst antique ruins, portrait bruises and urns. Merito points Pittura to an antique bust. For them, antique architecture fragments, an incense burner, a skull and benses. The etching is mounted on an album leaf provided (presumably by the artist themselves) of a pen-written table of contents of a print album with works to and from Flemish and Dutch painters, including whom Nicolaas Maas, Willem de Heus, Pieter van Slingeland, Pieter Bout and
Allegory with Personifications of painting (Pittura) and the merit (Merito). Allegory with Personifications of painting (Pittura) and the merit (Merito) amidst antique ruins, portrait bruises and urns. Merito points Pittura to an antique bust. For them, antique architecture fragments, an incense burner, a skull and benses. The etching is mounted on an album leaf provided (presumably by the artist themselves) of a pen-written table of contents of a print album with works to and from Flemish and Dutch painters, including whom Nicolaas Maas, Willem de Heus, Pieter van Slingeland, Pieter Bout and others.
Size: 4385px × 5713px
Photo credit: © BTEU/RKMLGE / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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