Triumph of Truth (Triumphus Veritatis)

Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619

Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603

Haecht, Willem van, c.1527-c.1583; Haecht, Godevaert van, 1546-1599

print

Print Statement 2

WIL GODEFR V. HAECHT COMP EXCVD

1579

1 print : engraving ; plate mark 434 x 342 mm. on sheet 450 x 362 mm.

paper

[Netherlands]

Titled at top: "TRIVMPHVS VERITATIS" and below three columns of Latin text: "IMPVGNAT VERVM STIMVLIS … NIL VSQUE RELINQVVNT."; at lower left: "M.D.V. INV WIL GODEFR V. HAECHT COMP EXCVD"; in lower margin four columns of text in Dutch, German and French: "De waerheijt houwt ... verite la vie."; on banderol at lower richt: "DECIPIO CVNCTOS VERBIS VVLTVQZ BENIGNO VTILE QVAM MVLTIS DISSIMVLASSE FVIT Anno 1579.".

The print is pasted in an album.

Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559

The inscription in the plate indicates that Willem and Godefridus van Haecht collaboratively published the print, and that they 'composed' possibly the iconography and/or the text.

good

Truth
Opinion
Truthfulness and falsehood

Biblioteca Casanatense

Fondo Stampe e Disegni

20.A.II.116/8

Link to album description

20.A.II.116

Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 - 1700, Rotterdam 1996, vol. XLIV, p. 238, n. 1198; Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 - 1700, Rotterdam 2004, vol. LXVI, p. 192, n. 1837

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