The Four States of Society – I. A savage family

63,00

Shelf mark M. 90-93
Format 16 x 12 cm.
Origin Tours, around 1505-1510
Library París Fine Arts Academy
Format Passe-partout in black (30 x 40 cm.)
Description Spanish, German, French, English
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Description

The Four States of Society – I. A savage family

This sixteenth-century single leaf represents a pair of hairy beings that could be interpreted as a beginning of the dawn of history. However, the landscape that appears is strewn with castles, probably inhabited by people from the painter’s time. Thus savageness here is probably intended to mean savageness as opposed to civilisation, rather than referring to a primal situation in human history.