Renard Lies that the Rabbit Insulted One of His Children from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox
1650–75
Medium
Engraving; third state of four
Dimensions
Plate: 3 3/4 × 4 9/16 in. (9.6 × 11.6 cm) Sheet: 4 in. × 4 3/4 in. (10.1 × 12.1 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(46)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In this lively engraving, titled *Renard Lies that the Insulted One of Children*, Allart vandingen captures a cunning moment from Hendrick van Alcmar's 15th-century Dutch adaptation of the medieval beast epic *Renard The Fox*. The sly fox Renard, the story's notorious trickster, fabricates a tale of insult to deceive others, ensnaring the innocent rabbit in his web of lies. This scene exemplifies the fable's satirical take on human vices like deceit and power struggles, a theme that captivated European audiences from the Middle Ages through the Baroque era. Created between 1650 and 1675, the ...
About the Artist
Allart van Everdingen · 1621–1675
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...