Johan Wierix

1549/50–1615/18
Flanders

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Allegorical genre

MELENCOLIA

1602

Story:

Description of the Story

Signature and date:

Johan. Wiricx. Fecit. Ann. 1602 (cut off)

Copperplate engraving

238×184 mm

Handbooks:

TIB. Х, 074; С. 1

Impression in the Museum collections

Watermark:
is unclear because the sheet is mounted on dense paper

Provenance:

State Museum Fund;
Rumyantsev Museum;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-30057

Comments:

an impression with a false Dürer's monogram and a false date: AD 151