# Allegory of Government: Wisdom Defeating Discord [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WIT, Jacob de]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 39 cm ## Commentary This oil sketch is a modello for a canvas ceiling painting that Jacob de Wit executed in 1738 for the Alderman's Hall in the new wing of the Old Town Hall \(Schepenzaal. Oud Stadhuis\) in The Hague. The painting was removed \(and later lost\) in the nineteenth century, and the present picture is the only visual record of the lost canvas. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of the Arts]() - [Allegory of the Four Seasons - Autumn]() - [Allegory of the Four Seasons - Spring]() - [Allegory of the Four Seasons - Summer]() - [Allegory of the Four Seasons - Winter]() - [Allegory of Transience]() - [Baptism of Christ in the Jordan]() - [Flora and Zephyr]() - [Holy Family and Trinity]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()