Description

Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.7 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 15 x 18.4 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.9 x 7.2 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘La Paresse est la mere des vices.’ – (‘Laziness is the mother of vice’). It shows a putto with Medusa in the left corner pointing at a man in bed. The lazy man is waited on by a servant bringing a book and inkwell and a candle. From: ‘La Doctrine des Moeurs […]’ printed by Louys Sevestre for Pierre Daret, Paris, 1646. First edition. Author: Marin le Roy de Gomberville. Made by order of Mazarin for the instruction of the young Louis XIV. The plates are copies in reverse after Otto van Veen’s emblems in ‘Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata.’ Ref: Brunet II 1658.Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Pierre Daret’ after ‘Otto Vaenius’. Pierre Daret de Cazeneuve(1604-1678) was a French portrait painter and engraver. Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized name Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius, (c.1556-1629) was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

Condition: Good, given age. Stain in left margin, not affecting image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-LAZINESS-VICE-CANDLE-BOOK AND INKWELL-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-01