Time rescues Truth from Envy and Discord. Engraving by G. Audran after N. Poussin.
- Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.
- Date:
- [1680?]
- Reference:
- 2472611i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
A winged man (Time) holds a naked woman (Truth) away from (below left) a woman with a dagger and a torch (Discord?) and (below right) a woman encircled by snakes (Envy). Above right, a putto holding a scythe and the worm Ouroboros (Eternity)
Publication/Creation
[Paris] : [Audran?], [1680?]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 31.3 x 32 cm
References note
Roger-Armand Weigert et al., Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome I, Paris 1939. possibly p. 133 no. 55 (as Le temps et la verité, plate to H. Testelin, Sentiments des plus habiles peintres du temps sur la peinture, Paris, 1680, 33 x 32 cm)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2472611i
Reproduction note
After a painting by Poussin, in the same direction, 297 cm in diameter, commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu in 1641 for a ceiling in his palace, and subsequently engraved by Gérard Audran in the opposite direction to the painting, on a larger scale than the present print
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores