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The Triumph of Job

The Triumph of Job is an ink print by the Renaissance artist Dirck Volckertz Coornhert. It dates from 1559 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
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- Inscribed:upper center, in plate, in image: IOB.; lower right, in plate, numbered in image: 5; below image, in plate: Omnibus amissis, post mille pericula, rebus: / Post tot difficiles casus, varios cruciatus, / JOB quibus infesto tentatus Dæmone, Amicis, / Coniuge fallaci, passus tamen est fide cucta / Constanter, firmusque, nimis testudinis instar, / Mansit, quam poterit tectam con fringere nemo. (When Job had lost all his possessions after trial without number, after so many difficulties and so many torments of every kind by which he was tested by the hostile devil, and by his friends and his deceitful wife, his faith yet enabled him to endure all those trials steadfastly, and he remained as strong as a tortoise, whose shell no one can break. [translation from Veldman, Ilja. "Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert and Heemskerck's allegories." In Maarten van Heemskerck and Dutch humanism in the sixteenth century, p.66. Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, 1977.])
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