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Allegory of Farming
Pieter van Meldert (signed by artist), 1624
At the upper left is a farmer with a threshing flail and scythe, and beside him at the upper right a farmer’s wife with a sickle and hoe. The division of the composition into a vertical and two horizontal bands suggests that the drawing served as a design for a stained-glass window. This is the only known work by the glass painter Pieter van Meldert, who was active in Zeeland. None of his stained-glass windows have survived.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-2008-102
- Dimensionsheight 181 mm x width 125 mm
- Physical characteristicspen in bruin, penseel in grijs