id:			306978
accession number:	2017.199
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.199
updated:		2022-09-22 11:08:02.934000

Stultitiam patiuntur opes (Wealth permits Stupidity), or, Allegory of Wealth, Lust, and Stupidity, 1588. Raphael Sadeler (Flemish, 1560/61–1628/32), after Joos Van Winghe (Flemish, 1544–1603). Engraving; sheet: 31.4 x 37.1 cm (12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.); image: 29.2 x 35.8 cm (11 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2017.199

title:				Stultitiam patiuntur opes (Wealth permits Stupidity), or, Allegory of Wealth, Lust, and Stupidity
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creation date:			1588
creation date earliest:		1588
creation date latest:		1588
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Flanders
technique:	Engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Engraving
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Raphael Sadeler (Flemish, 1560/61–1628/32)  - printer

* Joos Van Winghe (Flemish, 1544–1603)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 31.4 x 37.1 cm (12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.); Image: 29.2 x 35.8 cm (11 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)
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In this pointed visual allegory, a king who personifies wealth counts his money at a table while a jester places a fool’s hat over his head. His female counterpart, distracted by her aged reflection in a mirror, displays her vanity in her luxurious clothing, lap dog, and hangers-on: flattery fans her, and stupidity, with a boar’s head, serves her food and drink. Such allegories were meant to both entertain while cautioning the viewer to question their own relationship to wealth.

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