The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints
A Shield is of no Use when Fortune Turns Her Back from Six Sayings about Fortune
Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert
- Date
- ca. 1560
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (21 × 24.7 cm) Sheet: 11 1/8 × 13 5/16 in. (28.2 × 33.8 cm)
- Object type
- Classification
- Prints
- Object number
- 2013.118.3
- Credit line
- Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Elkind Gifts, 2013
Artist information
Netherlandish, Amsterdam 1519/22–1590 Gouda
Subjects and terms
- Female Nudes
- Men
The Met object ID 427100. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.