Die Armut (The Outcasts) or Allegory of Poverty, Van de Venne
Die Armut (The Outcasts) or Allegory of Poverty, Van de Venne
Item Information
Title:
Die Armut (The Outcasts) or Allegory of Poverty, Van de Venne
Description:
A man who is blind wears tattered clothes and carries an elderly woman who in turn carries a a child on her back, while being led by a dog on a leash attached to his belt. Depiction of "The Blind man and the Lame".
Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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Notes:
"'t Sijn ellendige beenen die Armoe moete[n] draege[n]" or "Allegory of Poverty", painted by the 17th century Dutch painter Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - 1662), circa 1630.
