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Inventory number: CVH 504
Close-up of the decoration of a theatre(?); with, on the left, in front of a narrow window pier, a standing allegorical female figure with, on the base thereof, the inscription "PRUDENTIA". In front of a second wall surface: a candelabrum motif with two cherubs’ heads set in the base. On the right, above a segmental arch, a face mask and two birds which in their bills are clasping a small cloth (or banner?).
Artist:
anonymous (the Southern Netherlands)
Dating:
1600?-1799?
Material:
Watercolour; white body colour, black ink on sepia paper
Dimensions:
536 x 620 mm
Marks :
Inscription on the base of the female figure.
Place:
Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp
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