An old man approaches a young woman, who keeps her hand on a pitcher. She wears a veil in her hair. The stone column depicts the coat of arms of the Goltzius family. Below the representation is a four-line text in Latin.
| Artist |
Anonymous Master
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Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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Claes Jansz II Visscher
RKD
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| Title | Unequal Love |
| Date | 1602 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription in the depiction, centre right: 1602 |
| printed inscription in the depiction, at the bottom right: HG | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: Decropitus juvonem lepidamque [...] Conjugij spes tibi nulla mei. | |
| printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: C J Visscher ex. | |
| inscription on the back, bottom right: 5 | |
| inscription reverse, lower left: [...] | |
| inscription reverse, upper left: f 1,,8 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-MS |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MS |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11699/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A71
male sex; man
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 31D16 old man Iconclass 42D31 unequal couple, ill-matched couple Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 56F Desire and Aversion Iconclass 56F1 Desire; 'Desiderio' (Ripa) Iconclass 56F11 Ambition; 'Ambitione', 'Amor di Fama' (Ripa) Iconclass 56F2 (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
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