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The Abbess
1538
from Les Simulachres et historiees faces de la mort series, 1538
Medium
woodcut
Measurements
6.4 × 4.8 cm (block) 14.8 × 10.1 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1961
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 99-15 (vol. XIVa, p. 202); Woltmann 125; Pass. vol. III 362-373
Inscription
printed in ink above image u.l.-u.r.: Laudaui magis mortuos quam / viuentes.
printed in ink above image u.c.: ECCLE. IIII
printed in ink below image l.l.-l.r.: I'ay touſiours les mortz plue loué / Que les uiſz,eſquelz mal abonde, / Toutesfoys la Mort ma noué / Au ranc de ceulx qui ſont au monde.
inscribed in pencil l.l.: Lyon 1538
inscribed in pen and brown ink l.l.: (...illeg.) / (...illeg.)
stamped in ink l.l.: LAL (not in Lugt: Lionel Lindsay)
Accession Number
950B-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Another Work Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
abbesses Death (allegorical character) deaths grief hourglasses memento mori nuns skeletons (animal components)
Movements
Renaissance