
AT-00021530
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A Proverb: Wealth and Poverty
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Karel van Mander I (Netherlandish, Meulebeke 1548–1606 Amsterdam)
- Date
- mid-16th–early 17th century
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, gray wash, heightened with white, on beige paper.
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 1/8 x 6 13/16 in. (25.7 x 17.3 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1980
- Accession no.
- 1980.121
Provenance
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.
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Open-access museum record · AT-00021530
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