Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."
date: label: Date
content: 1726
name: label: Artist
content: Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. From left to right: a youth standing with one leg upon a dog (?). He holds a snake with his right hand, leaning with his left hand upon a standing looking glass. A girl leans against a column, carrying in her right hand a key and in her left one a palm branch. A laurel wreath around her head. A youth with a winged helmet, carrying the caduceus in his left hand and a lyre in his right one. Cupid, leaning with his right arm upon something unidentified, covers his face with a mask. The lowered left hand carries the quiver. Caption written in ink, at left: “immitatio sapiens” (the ink changes to the one first used in 1916-9-1) naervolginge der wysheyt fidelis constantia/ getroniae Stantvaftigheyt elocuentia/welsprekentheyt al seen harfs soet luydende/Amor simulat/veynseude liefde – foes Claudius de Cock/ inv. Del: Antv: 1726.”
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ogden Codman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1916-9-2
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, pen, ink, brush, gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.9 × 32.9 cm (8 1/4 × 12 15/16 in.)