# The Power of Women: The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket, in Dutch's contemporaries

Lucas van Leyden made this in about 1512, aged about 13. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This woodcut is from a series depicting the power of women, a popular early 16th-century theme. The series highlights a woman’s capacity to use beauty, charm, and ruse to thwart even the cleverest men. Here, Van Leyden illustrated the cunning of the Roman emperor’s daughter.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1512
- Medium: woodcut
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.116
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Lucas van Leyden](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/lucas-van-leyden), Netherlandish, 1494–about 1533

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Lucas van Leyden's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-lucas-van-leyden?hang=748) (8 works)
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