[Choice between good and evil]
[Sadeler]
print
Sadeler fecit et Excud
[XVI century]
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 195 x 250 mm (trimmed).
paper
Latin
Netherlands
Margin: "Caro concupiscit aduersus … diligitur? Iaco. 1."; in image, lower centre: "Sadeler fecit et Excud".
L.4559
Man is seated under a tree, flanked by the personification sof life (Vita) and death (Mors). Man is crowned by a putto in name of "Concolatio". In the foreground a fight between the personifications of the Human Spirit and of Lust.
good
AllegoriesSinDeath
Biblioteca Casanatense
Fondo Stampe e Disegni
20.A.III.102/163
20.A.III.102
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XXI, Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II, Van Gendt & co, Amsterdam, 1980, p. 163, no. 490.
Online resource Collectors' marks url