Emblematic Scene

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Artist: Otto van Veen (Netherlandish, Leiden 1556–1629 Brussels)
Date: 1607 or before (?)
Medium: Pen and brush and brown ink, yellowish oil paint, on papel brown tinted paper
Dimensions: sheet: 7 3/16 x 5 7/8 in. (18.3 x 14.9 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1996
Accession no.: 1996.149

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

The Judgement of Zaleucus
Otto van Veen
c. 1605 · Painting
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00000668
Judgement of Paris
Otto van Veen
n.d. · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00004156
The Triumph of the Church: Ecclesia Presented with the Doctrines, Seated in a Chariot Attended by the Four Doctors of the Church
Otto van Veen
1615–20 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022319
Two women and three children in an interior
Otto van Veen
1556–1629 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023040

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.