On Order of the Lion, a Piece of Skin is Taken from the Bear, A Piece of the Front Paws of the Wolf and a Piece from the She-Wolf's Hind Paws are Skinned from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox

On Order of the Lion, a Piece of Skin is Taken from the Bear, A Piece of the Front Paws of the Wolf and a Piece from the She-Wolf's Hind Paws are Skinned from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox by Allart van Everdingen

Medium

Engraving; fourth state of five

Dimensions

Plate: 3 11/16 × 4 1/2 in. (9.3 × 11.5 cm) Sheet: 3 15/16 × 4 13/16 in. (10 × 12.2 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962

Accession Number

62.650.8(34)

Tags

LionsBearsFoxes

About the Artist

Allart van Everdingen · 16211675

Allaert van Everdingen (1621-1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker who introduced Scandinavian landscape painting to the Netherlands. Born in Alkmaar and baptized on June 18, 1621, he pioneered a distinctive genre of Nordic mountain scenery that profoundly influenced Dutch landscape painting and later inspired the Romantic movement. Van Everdingen holds a unique place in art history...

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