Print Description
Bacchanal in which the wine flows freely and a satyr plays on a tambourine. The drunken Bacchus is lifted from a donkey by two men.
Made by Dancker Danckerts after Cornelis Holsteyn.
Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 36 x 45.5 cm (14.17 x 17.91 inch). Image size: 30.4 x 40 cm. (11.97 x 15.75 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Some staining in left margin. Some paper separation in left margin, backed. Some creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
BACHANAL-WINE-TAMBOURINE-DONKEY | EXPO-DUTCH/FLEMISH
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published by Frederick de Wit (1629/1631-1706) in Amsterdam.
Biography engraver: Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666) was a well known Dutch engraver and publisher. Danckerts was the son of Cornelis Danckerts of Amsterdam and Anne Minne of Leiden. The Danckerts belonged to a large Amsterdam family of engravers, cartographers, print-sellers and publishers. Danckerts was known for both his etchings of paintings, maps and his publications. His works are widely collected and feature in numerous museum, library and archive collections around the world. Dancker Danckerts was active in Amsterdam from 1654 to 1666 with a probable passage to Venice in 1656 according to the inscription on a drawing in Parma.
Biography artist: Cornelis Holsteyn (1618-1658) was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem.
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