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Truth triumphing over Envy and Anger with the help of Time

Maker

After

1594-1665

(engraver)
1640-1703

Title

Truth triumphing over Envy and Anger with the help of Time

Date of Production

1667 - 1677

Dimensions

Height: 57.5 cm
Width: 51 cm

Accession Number

G.1939.AB.77

Mode of Acquisition

Warburg Institute, London, transfer, 1939

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Provenance

Léon Coutil, Les Andelys (1856-1943); acquired by Anthony Blunt for the Warburg Institute, 1938; transferred to The Courtauld Institute, 1939.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower left: “Dedié à Monsieur Perrault Con.er du Roy Controlleur General des Bastimens et Jardins de sa Majesté Arts et Manufactures de France.”; lower right: “Parson tres-humble serviteur Audran.”; lower left: “En vain la Colere et L’Enuie/ S’arment contra la Verité,//”; lower right: “Le Temps l’arrache aléur furie,/ Et la rend a l’Eternité.//”; lower left: “…Audran, et Se Vendent chez le d’. Audran aux deux Piliers dOr rue S. Iacques avec pr. Du R.”; lower right, handwritten on mount: “717/63(27) A.403”.

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