The personification of Love (Caritas) breastfeeds a child; two children accompany her.
| Artist |
Aegidius Sadeler
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|---|---|
| Title | Charity (Caritas) |
| Date | ca. 1624 - 1629 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | inscription at the back, top: J. Saedeler |
| inscription reverse, centre: G.Storck a Milano 1799. / In. N°9509. | |
| inscription reverse, lower left: Sadeler inv. et sculp. | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-KN |
| Acquisition credit |
bequest
Horenbant, Jozef 2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-KN |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11534/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11M33
Charity, 'Caritas'; 'Carita' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D111 infant, baby ~ the ages of man Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D1121 tot, toddler ~ the ages of man Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 42A31 nursing, suckling Iconclass 42A32(+0) feeding a baby (+ variant) Iconclass 42B12 mother-love Iconclass 42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 56F2 (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. XXI. Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II : Text ; Vol. XXII : Plates / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein, Dieuwke De Hoop Scheffer, Karel Gerard Boon. - Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1980 (34) |
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