Fortune Does Not Favour Those Who Fall Asleep; Patience as the Victor of Fortune, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, after anonymous, after Maarten van Heemskerck, after c. 1560 - before 1590

Fortune Does Not Favour Those Who Fall Asleep; Patience as the Victor of Fortune, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, after anonymous, after Maarten van Heemskerck, after c. 1560 - before 1590

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Only upright moral conduct and prudence can protect a man from the vagaries of Fortune. The final sheet of the series shows the personification of Fortune lying exhausted on the ground, having been defeated by Patience.

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