Légende
Penance, Female allegories in landscapes, print, number: '72', printmaker: Virgilius Solis, Nuremberg, 1524 - 1562, Bavaria, paper, engraving, etching, intaglio printmaking technique, height 52 mm x width 85 mm, Print is part of a series of six prints with female allegories in landscapes., landscape with ruins, city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, 'Poenitentia', 'Contritione' (Ripa), part of the confession, A monochrome engraving shows a woman standing beside a stone sarcophagus, leaning on it with one elbow while resting her head on her hand and gazing upward. She wears a flowing draped garment that reveals one shoulder and leg, and her curly hair is styled up. Broken architectural elements lie on the ground near the base of the sarcophagus, and a columned structure with classical capitals stands behind her. The background contains rolling rocky hills, clustered buildings and towers on a distant hilltop, various trees and shrubs, and a small bridge over water visible at the far right. The scene is framed by decorative vertical elements at the edges.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26A94_474
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
40.8Mo (6.0Mo) / 40.8cm x 25.0cm / 4816 x 2958 (300dpi)