Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 66r

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Below a plaque, edged in gold, with the inscription, COMEDETIS FESTINANTER, the scene is painted in imitation of tapestry and shows a dark interior lit by a hanging lamp. Women and men, holding staves, stand around the draped table eating in haste from platters of food. A servant on the right pours a beverage into a cup from a pitcher. Behind him a woman carrying a child enters from the right. In the background several figures, bringing food, appear on a staircase. There is a quatrain on a plinth below. The frame consists of burnished and dull gold bands.