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The image shows a group scene with multiple full-bodied figures arranged around a central seated figure on a raised platform with a decorative curtain backdrop. The central figure is a bearded, bare-chested man holding a staff. Other figures are engaged in conversation or debate, dressed in classical tunics and robes with various hats. Columns and steps are in the background, along with a natural landscape with trees and mountains in the distance.
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The image shows a group scene with multiple full-bodied figures arranged around a central seated figure on a raised platform with a decorative curtain backdrop. The central figure is a bearded, bare-chested man holding a staff. Other figures are engaged in conversation or debate, dressed in classical tunics and robes with various hats. Columns and steps are in the background, along with a natural landscape with trees and mountains in the distance.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Alexander the Great Seated in Justice

Willem Swanenburgh, after Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

Date
1606
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 29.9 x 37 cm (11 3/4 x 14 9/16 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2012.92.610
Credit line
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Time span
1601 to 1650
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Thronus Iustitiae (Plate 10)

Subjects and terms

  • Seated figure
  • Hat
  • Weapons
  • Figures
  • Writing
Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 18, 1974; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Inscription

in image, at bottom left: IWtewael inuent. / G. Swaneb. sculp. 1606; in image, at right: CVSichem editor: et excud:; below image: Regis Alexandri non est laus clarior ulla / Quam quod juris erat justitiaeque tenax. / Nil pruis edixit quam partes audiit ambas, / Integer ut dempto jure favore daret. / Proebuit ergo unam duntaxat agentibus aurem, / Altera sollicitis mansit operta reis. / Quilquis in auditum damnat, vel crimine solvit, / Aequa licet statuat non tamen aquus erit; below image, at left: X

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