Ontwerp voor een gedenkteken met het portret van een vrouw vastgehouden door de Tijd 1678 - 1736

This drawing, created between 1678 and 1736 by Dutch artist Jan Claudius de Cock, is a design for a memorial monument. The design depicts the figure of Time holding a portrait of a woman in a roundel. The allegorical figure of Time appears to be pointing toward a blank space on the monument, a space presumably for an inscription. The figure of Time, alongside other symbolic figures like a skeletal winged figure with a banner, suggests a theme of mortality and the passage of time, a recurring theme in baroque art and Dutch funerary art. The composition is typical of Dutch funerary design, featuring a combination of allegorical figures, symbols, and space for text, intended to memorialize the deceased.