Five Panels: Allegory of Man and Occupations of the Months

Description Comparing the cycles of life-the life of an individual man and the cycle of the year for society- was a popular subject for art meant to decorate domestic spaces. Here, in the central roundel the lust of youth is contrasted with the decrepitude of old age.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/08/1965	Treatment	cleaned; stabilized; loss compensation
10/01/1987	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; examined for condition

Provenance George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, October 14, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1905