Print Description
Original antique master print showing a village scene with a fortune-teller holding the hand of a woman (Teniers’ wife), the artist onlooking, a boy with a dog standing in lower left, a poor family resting at right.
Made by L. Surugue after David Teniers.
Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 48.5 x 36.5 cm (19.09 x 14.37 inch). Image size: 45 x 34 cm. (17.72 x 13.39 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Repaired minor tear bottom edge, not affecting image. Slightly damp stained at the top, mainly visible on verso. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
TENIERS-WIFE-VILLAGE-FORTUNE TELLER-DOG | DPO-A2-003-15
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published in Paris by L. Surugue, dated 1750.
Biography engraver: Louis de Surugue de Surgis (1686-1762), French engraver and print publisher, active in Paris. Son of Parisian wine emrchant, and the first engraver in the family. Apprenticed to Bernard Picart, with whom he worked in Holland, and on his return worked both as an engraver and as a printseller. Member of the Academie.
Biography artist: David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 ? 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator.
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