Fiducia, a seated woman holds a book and banner while turning her head away from a bare-breasted woman, who lies at her feet before an assemblage of masks on the ground, from the series 'Virtues conquering vices' after Maerten de Vos
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 5 3/8 x 3 9/16 in. (13.6 x 9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.697
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
BooksWomenFemale NudesDogsFlags
About the Artist
Johann Sadeler I|Maerten de Vos · 1550–1601
**Johann Sadeler I (also known as Jan or Johannes Sadeler), born in Brussels in 1550 and active until his death in Venice in 1600, stands as a pivotal figure in the Sadeler family, the most prolific dynasty of Flemish engravers and print publishers in Northern Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.** As the eldest of three brothers—including Aegidius I and Raphael I—he ...