Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
Jan van der Straet, known as Stradanus, was a Mannerist designer and draftsman whose pen and brown ink drawings, brushed with brown wash and heightened in opaque white, served allegorical and moralizing subjects. The archive holds a single sheet from 1570, framed by the artist's own pen and brown ink lines, and its subject — the choice of virtue across the course of a human life — is typical of his allegorical bent. The drawing's date places it firmly within the sixteenth-century Mannerist milieu in which Stradanus worked.
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