The Lion and the Lioness Pardon Renard and Order the Other Animals to Forget His Crimes from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox

1650–75

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving; third state of four
Dimensions: Plate: 3 11/16 × 4 9/16 in. (9.3 × 11.6 cm) Sheet: 3 7/8 × 4 13/16 in. (9.9 × 12.2 cm)
Collection no.: 62.650.8(32)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Allaert van Everdingen. The Lion and the Lioness Pardon Renard and Order the Other Animals to Forget His Crimes from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox. Allaert van Everdingen; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Lion and the Lioness Pardon Renard and Order the Other Animals to Forget His Crimes from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox — Allaert van Everdingen. 1650–75.

Medium: Engraving; third state of four. Dimensions: Plate: 3 11/16 × 4 9/16 in. (9.3 × 11.6 cm) Sheet: 3 7/8 × 4 13/16 in. (9.9 × 12.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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