Antique Print-ETERNITY-FRUIT-STUDY-HERALD ANGEL-LIFT UP-MUSE-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.6 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 14.3 x 17.6 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.6 x 6.9 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘L’eternite est le fruict de nos etudes.’ – (‘Eternity is the fruit of our studies’). A herald angel and Time grab an old scholar under his armpits to raise him up to heaven while the Muses applaud him. In the foreground a man wearing laurel wreath rests on the ground, with one arm on a thick book. 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. A faint dampstain in the lower left margin edge. A crease in the top right margin corner, and some creasing in the lower margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-ETERNITY-FRUIT-STUDY-HERALD ANGEL-LIFT UP-MUSE-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-26