Plate 26: A Red Fox and a Wolf, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

upper center in red ink: I nunc et mitis, simplex innoxius esto / ut citius fias avidorum praeda LVPORVM.; upper center in black ink: NVNQVAM TE FALLA[N]T ANIMI SVB VVLPE LATENTES.; center right in black ink: XXVI.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; tree in image numbered .3., in red ink; banner in upper right of image in (gold?): HOMO HOMINI / LVPVS.; lower center in red ink: FVRE[M]QVE FVR COGNOSCIT, ET LVPVM LVPVS.; lower center in black ink: Lupus est homini homo, non homo, cum qualis sit non nonit.
Facing page: upper center in (gold?): Si Leonina pellis non satis est vulpina est addenda: / Dolus, an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?; lower center in brown ink: Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem: / Quem auribus tenere, periculosum.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Exhibition History

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, = 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

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