ca. 1610
Maker Unknown
PDP
Painting depicting two pale women in court dress attending to a seated man with dark skin, who holds a gold basin. One woman applies a sponge to his skin while the other pours water over his head from a golden vessel. Inscribed in ink variously in German, most of which is unintelligible. The inscription at the bottom roughly translates to "Some carry loyalty in their mouths; that is enough for me. Others pretend to be loyal but deceive, because they laugh when they should weep."
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Medium
- gouache, shell gold, zinc white, vellum (paper), painting
- Locations
- country: Germany
- Dimensions
- Height: 4 in Width: 6 3/4 in
- Departments
- PDP
- Accession Number
- 290:6
- Rights Statement
- arr
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