Garden of Love

Israhel van Meckenemca. 1500

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Interlaces of foliated rinceaux in the center of which appear a young man and a young woman seated. The woman offers the man an apple symbolizing the garden of Love and holds a dog on her lap. Among the vegetal scroll ornament are figures, animals, and birds.

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Title: Garden of Love
Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
Creator Lifespan: 1440/1503
Date Created: ca. 1500
Physical Dimensions: w242 x h170 cm
Type: Print
Rights: Gift of Mrs. Leo Wallerstein
Medium: Engraving on off-white laid paper
Provenance: From the Collection of Leo Wallerstein; Friedrich August II of Saxony (Lugt 971)
Inscribed: In plate, inside ribbon at top: Israhel V. M.
Exhibitions: New York, NY - CH. "Master Printmakers from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design." Organized by The American Federation of Arts. November 1, 1970 - December 31, 1971.New York - CHNDM. "Old Master Prints from the Wallerstein Collection." March 5 - May 26, 1985. Traveled: Providence, RI - Brown University, Bell Gallery, January 16 - February 13, 1985; Seattle - Seattle Art Museum, October 18 - December 30, 1984.
Dimensions: 17 x 24.2cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/2in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Israhel van Meckenem Engraving German Renaissance Laid paper Love Northern Renaissance Renaissance