Jacob de Wit
Allegory of the Arts (Sketch for a Ceiling Painting)
174247.9 x 59.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower left: J.d.Wit / .1742
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 219
Provenance
?the artist, Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam, 1742–died 1754
his estate sale, Amsterdam, March 10, 1755
with Georges Hoentsche, Paris, until 1906, sold to Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1906
Other works by Jacob de Wit
Flora and Zephyr
1743
1743
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
1747
1747
Allegory of Government: Wisdom Defeating Discord
1738
1738
Truth and Wisdom assist History in writing
1754
1754
Putti with sheep
1749
1749