Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Heat, Grief, Cold, Anxiety, Age, and Heaviness Pursue Him: (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag). Culture: South Netherlandish. Dimensions: Overall: 102 x 137in. (259.1 x 348cm). Date: ca. 1500-1525.This tapestry illustrates a poem about human frailty, in which the stag represents Man. Here, Age and her hounds Heat, Grief, Heaviness, Cold, and Anxiety, drive the stag from a lake. A French inscription may be translated: Then Old Age mounts an all-out assaultThat drives him from the lakeAnd unleashes upon him Pain and Doubt,Cold and Heat, and thus brings onCare and Trouble to seize him.And Age with wrinkled fleshAnd Heaviness make him fleeToward Sickness, the dreaded one. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Heat, Grief, Cold, Anxiety, Age, and Heaviness Pursue Him: (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag). Culture: South Netherlandish. Dimensions: Overall: 102 x 137in. (259.1 x 348cm). Date: ca. 1500-1525.This tapestry illustrates a poem about human frailty, in which the stag represents Man. Here, Age and her hounds Heat, Grief, Heaviness, Cold, and Anxiety, drive the stag from a lake. A French inscription may be translated: Then Old Age mounts an all-out assaultThat drives him from the lakeAnd unleashes upon him Pain and Doubt,Cold and Heat, and thus brings onCare and Trouble to seize him.And Age with wrinkled fleshAnd Heaviness make him fleeToward Sickness, the dreaded one. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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