Print Description
Diana met pijl en boog op een wolk (Diana with bow and arrow on a cloud) Diana is sitting on a cloud, bow and arrow in hand. She is surrounded by two putti and a man with an axe and a spear. The print is part of a series of biblical, mythological and allegorical scenes.
Made by Johannes Glauber after Gerard de Lairesse.
Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Coat of arms with French Lilly.
Sheet size: 42 x 31.8 cm (16.54 x 12.52 inch). Image size: 36.8 x 26.2 cm. (14.49 x 10.31 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light soiling and creasing. Small tear at bottom middle. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
DIANA-BOW AND ARROW-CLOUD-PUTTI | PCO-E8-5
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Bijbelse, mythologische en allegorische voorstellingen (series title) published by Leonard Schenk in Amsterdam.
Reference: Hollstein German 50-3(4).
Biography engraver: Johannes Glauber (1646-c.1726) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography artist: Gerard (de) Lairesse (1641-1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and French classicist painters such as Charles le Brun, Simon Vouet and authors such as Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine. His importance grew in the period following the death of Rembrandt. His treatises on painting and drawing, Grondlegginge Ter Teekenkonst (1701), based on geometry and Groot Schilderboek (1707), were highly influential on 18th-century painters.
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