Allegory of perception, An artist wearing glasses paints a naked woman in the open air. The model sits on her knees on the floor and looks at herself in a mirror held up by a putto. Behind the easel a doctor looking at a urinal and two men with an astrolabe and compass on a globe. In the right foreground are various measuring instruments and in the background an armillary. A cat in the front and an eagle in the back right. Below the performance is the Latin translation of: I know from experience that this does both harm and pleasure to the viewer., print, print maker: Jan Saenredam, (

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Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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