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Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue)
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, 1570 or before
- Artist
- Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (Netherlandish, Bruges 1523–1605 Florence)
- Date
- 1570 or before
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with heightening in opaque white; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by the artist
- Size
- Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (21.6 × 29.8 cm)
- Type
- Drawings
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public domain: free to use, no permission needed
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