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This woodcut is from a series depicting the power of women, a popular early 16th-century theme. The series highlights a woman’s capacity to use beauty, charm, and ruse to thwart even the cleverest men. Here, Van Leyden illustrated the cunning of the Roman emperor’s daughter. According to legend, the poet Virgil fell in love with the maiden, but she objected and punished him for his impudence. After promising to raise Virgil to her bedroom window in a basket, she left him hanging halfway. The printmaker omitted the emperor’s daughter from the scene but added the woman advising her son against such folly.
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114941
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The Power of Women: The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket
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print
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Source metadata
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114941
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print
title
The Power of Women: The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket
description
This woodcut is from a series depicting the power of women, a popular early 16th-century theme. The series highlights a woman’s capacity to use beauty, charm, and ruse to thwart even the cleverest men. Here, Van Leyden illustrated the cunning of the Roman emperor’s daughter. According to legend, the poet Virgil fell in love with the maiden, but she objected and punished him for his impudence. After promising to raise Virgil to her bedroom window in a basket, she left him hanging halfway. The printmaker omitted the emperor’s daughter from the scene but added the woman advising her son against such folly.
date
c. 1512
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q80007799
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22613
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Print
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Netherlands, 16th century
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1935.116
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woodcut
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The Power of Women: The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket, c. 1512. Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, 1494–about 1533). Woodcut. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Charles T. Brooks, 1935.116
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PR - Woodcut
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I/II
citations
citation
Francis, Henry. "Recent Print Accessions by Lucas Van Leyden." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>22, no. 9 (November 1935): 142-145
page_number
Mentioned: p. 142; Reproduced: p. 151
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Hollstein 89
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Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Charles T. Brooks
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2026-05-29 06:01:14.488000
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114941
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PR - Woodcut
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woodcut
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