Jacob de Wit
Allegory of Government: Wisdom Defeating Discord
173851.1 x 39.1 cm
Oil on canvas
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. 218
Provenance
the artist, Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam, 1738–died 1754
his estate sale, Amsterdam, 10 March 1755, nr. 126, as a ceiling sketch for the Stadhuis in The Hague
with Georges Hoentschel, Paris, until 1906, sold to Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1906
Other works by Jacob de Wit
Allegory of the Arts (Sketch for a Ceiling Painting)
1742
1742
Truth and Wisdom assist History in writing
1754
1754
Putti with sheep
1749
1749
Pictura
1750
1750
Triumph of the Three Christian Virtues (Faith, Hope, and Charity)