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Allegory on the Death of the Earl of Arundel

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Allegory on the Death of the Earl of Arundel

Cornelis Schut | Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel | Wenceslaus Hollar

ca. 1646

Medium

Etching; third state of three

Tags

Human Figures Weapons Skeletons Death

Dimensions

Plate: 17 × 12 5/8 in. (43.2 × 32 cm) Sheet: 17 3/16 × 12 5/8 in. (43.7 × 32 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Cornelis Schut

1597–1655 • Habsburg Netherlands

Known for paintings commissioned by churches and monasteries, subjects included religious themes, allegorical, and mythological scenes. From 1624 to 1627 he was in Rome, where he was a founder-member of the Schildersbent (the group of Netherlandish artists active in Rome at that time). Schut worked there under the patronage of the Flemish merchant Pieter de Vischere. Comment on works: Mythology; Religious

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