L’allégorie de la pauvreté dans les gravures des xvi^e et xvii^e siècles De la personnification à l’allégorie de la pauvreté, de l’emblème à la gravure

The theme of poverty was rather successful in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, notably in loose-sheet engravings and in emblem books published in northern Europe. This article studies the personifications of poverty staged in these allegorical compositions, and analyses the choices by virtue of which poverty was at times considered a virtue, at others a vice.