Cœnotaphiorum (17)

Hans Vredeman de Vries

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Funeral monument for a man and a woman, on one side placed against a wall. The tomb is characterized by niches with women holding blank coats of arms. On top of the tomb the effigies of a sleeping man and woman are placed. Their effigies are repeated in a kneeling pose on a console on the wall, which has two niches filled with the statues of Christ and a female (?) figure. The wall behind the tomb has a stained glass window. On the left the wall opens up in an archway in which a person is dipicted. Below the image a Latin inscription is added, consisting of four lines divided over two columns.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art