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In this pointed visual allegory, a king who personifies wealth counts his money at a table while a jester places a fool’s hat over his head. His female counterpart, distracted by her aged reflection in a mirror, displays her vanity in her luxurious clothing, lap dog, and hangers-on: flattery fans her, and stupidity, with a boar’s head, serves her food and drink. Such allegories were meant to both entertain while cautioning the viewer to question their own relationship to wealth.
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306978
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Stultitiam patiuntur opes (Wealth permits Stupidity), or, Allegory of Wealth, Lust, and Stupidity
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306978
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Stultitiam patiuntur opes (Wealth permits Stupidity), or, Allegory of Wealth, Lust, and Stupidity
description
In this pointed visual allegory, a king who personifies wealth counts his money at a table while a jester places a fool’s hat over his head. His female counterpart, distracted by her aged reflection in a mirror, displays her vanity in her luxurious clothing, lap dog, and hangers-on: flattery fans her, and stupidity, with a boar’s head, serves her food and drink. Such allegories were meant to both entertain while cautioning the viewer to question their own relationship to wealth.
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1588
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en
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Q79873308
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Print
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Image: 29.2 x 35.8 cm (11 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.); Sheet: 31.4 x 37.1 cm (12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.)
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Flanders
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2017.199
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Engraving
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Stultitiam patiuntur opes (Wealth permits Stupidity), or, Allegory of Wealth, Lust, and Stupidity, 1588. Raphael Sadeler (Flemish, 1560/61–1628/32), after Joos Van Winghe (Flemish, 1544–1603). Engraving; image: 29.2 x 35.8 cm (11 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.); sheet: 31.4 x 37.1 cm (12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2017.199
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PR - Engraving
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citation
Peters, Emily J. and Wehn, James. “Acquisition Highlights: Prints.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 58, no. 2 (March/April 2018): 14-15.
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Reproduced: P. 15; Mentioned: P. 14-15
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 08:54:06.050000
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306978
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