, Antique Print-MONEY-CORRUPTS-COIN AVALANCHE-SOLDIERS-van Veen-Daret-1646, Pictura Antique Prints
, Antique Print-MONEY-CORRUPTS-COIN AVALANCHE-SOLDIERS-van Veen-Daret-1646, Pictura Antique Prints

Antique Print-MONEY-CORRUPTS-COIN AVALANCHE-SOLDIERS-van Veen-Daret-1646

Print

€70.00

Antique print, titled: ‘L’argent corrompt tout.’ – (‘Money corrupts everything’). A group of soldiers is surprised by a rain of coins. One of the soldiers is partly buried under the avalanche, while another holds up a cup to catach as many of the coins as possible.

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SKU: pco-20554 (cb3278 Categories: ,

Description

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 21 x 33.5 cm. The image size is ca. 14.7 x 18 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 9.3 x 14 inch. The image size is ca. 6.6 x 8 inch.

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 ‘P. Daret’ after ‘Otto Vaenius’. 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. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Text on rear belongs to plate 50. Copy of text belonging to this plate available on request.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-MONEY-CORRUPTS-COIN AVALANCHE-SOLDIERS-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-20

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Dimensions 1 cm

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