The Lion Takes the Advice of the Other Animals for Renard's Punishment from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox
1650–75
Medium
Engraving; third state of four
Dimensions
Plate: 3 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (9.6 × 11.5 cm) Sheet: 4 in. × 4 13/16 in. (10.1 × 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(7)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 17th-century Dutch engraving with Allart van Everding *The Lion Takes the Advice of Other Animals for Renard's*, from Hendrick van Alcmar'sRenard The Fox*. between 1650 and 1675, this small-scale print (plate: 3 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.) captures a pivotal moment in the beast fable tradition. Reynard the Fox, the sly trickster of European folklore originating in the 12th century, faces judgment from the noble Lion, king of the animals, as foxes, rabbits, tigers, and other creatures gather amid trees, offering counsel on his punishment. Van Everdingen, a versatile artist...
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...