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Figure of Europe Panel
This is a Panel. It was after Marten de Vos and Julius Goltzius. It is dated late 17th–early 18th century and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is fruitwood. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
[label copy for four panels 1960-1-15a/d]
Panels with allegories of the Four Continents
After engravings of Julius Goltzius (active 1575-after 1595),
Eger, Bohemia, late 17th or early 18th century
Wood
Gift of the estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1960-1-15-a/b
Cabinet makers in Eger, Germany (Bohemia), in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries produced ornamental furniture decorated with relief pictorial intarsias. These decorative panels were either displayed independently on the wall, like paintings, or incorporated as drawer fronts in cabinets, caskets, boxes, or game boars. Allegorical subjects such as the Four Seasons, the Four Elements, the Virtues, and, as seen in this example, the Four Continents were popular in the period of Baroque humanism.
This object was
donated by
Estate of James Hazen Hyde.
It is credited Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde.
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 47.6 x 32.3 x 3.3 cm (18 3/4 x 12 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Figure of Europe Panel; After Marten de Vos (Flemish, 1532-1603), Julius Goltzius; fruitwood; H x W x D: 47.6 x 32.3 x 3.3 cm (18 3/4 x 12 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde; 1960-1-15-b