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Joris Hoefnagel: An allegory of the struggle between avarice and ambition   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Joris Hoefnagel  (1542–)  wikidata:Q1388840 s:en:Author:Joris Hoefnagel
 
Joris Hoefnagel
Alternative names
Georg Hoefnagel, Georg Hoeffnagel, Joris Houfnagel, Georg Houfnaglius, Georg Hueffnagel, Georg Hufnagel, Joris Hufnagel, Georg Huffnagel, Joris Huffnagel
Description Flemish painter, manuscript illuminator, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1542 Edit this at Wikidata 9 September 1600 / 24 July 1601 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Antwerp Prague
Work period from 1561 until 1600
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1561-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Tours (1561), Poitiers (1561), Spain (1567), England (1569), London (between circa 1568 and circa 1570
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1568-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1570-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
) Antwerp (1570–1576), Italy (1577–1578), Munich (1578–1591), Prague, Vienna (circa 1590–1599)
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artist QS:P170,Q1388840
Title
An allegory of the struggle between avarice and ambition
Date 1571
date QS:P571,+1571-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Pen and black ink and gouache, heightened with gold, on vellum laid down on paper, and then panel;
Dimensions height: 167 mm (6.57 in); width: 214 mm (8.42 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,167U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,214U174789
Inscriptions

dated, top centre: 1571, and signed and dated, lower border (faintly legible): GEORGIUS HOEFNAGLE INVENTOR FACIEBAT ANTWERPIAE Ao CIƆIƆLXXI. ARTIS NATURA MAGISTRA; extensively inscribed in Latin: (in cartouche, top centre) QUID NON MORTALIA PECTORA COGIS / AVRI SACRA FAMES ET HONORV DIRA CUPIDO?; (in border, top left) INFANS INGREDITUR and PUER ADOLESCIT; (in border, top right) JUVENIS FLORESCIT and VIR SENESCIT; (in border, lower right) SENEX FLACESSCIT and DECREPITUS OCCVMBIT; (in border, lower left) MORTVVS PVTESCIT and SPS REVIVISCIT; (in a scroll below the cartouche) MEDIOCRITAS; (on the left fighting man's shield) Hic vi ac ferro; (on the right fighting man's shield) Ille dolo et astu;

most of these inscriptions transcribed in a later hand (possibly 19th century) on a sheet of paper fixed to the reverse of the panel
Notes Sotheby's sale of 8 July 2015 London lot 11
Source/Photographer http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/old-master-british-drawings-l15040/lot.11.html
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