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‘Missis itaqe David …’ King David at the game of love with Batseba. Old Testament scene depicting the 9th commandment (you shall not covet your neighbors wife = adultery)
Made by Johannes/Jan Baptist II Collaert after Maarten de Vos.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 19.7 x 24.5 cm (7.76 x 9.65 inch). Image size: 18.5 x 23.7 cm. (7.28 x 9.33 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
KING DAVID-BATSEBA-9TH COMMANDMENT | PCO-E17-17
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From a series depicting the ten commandments through old testament scenes.
Biography engraver: Jan Collaert II or Hans Collaert II (c.1561-1620) was a Flemish engraver and printmaker working in Antwerp around the turn of the 17th century. Collaert also published under the name Jan Baptist Collaert.
Biography artist: Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos (1532-1603) was a Flemish painter. He is known mainly for his history and allegorical paintings and portraits. He was, together with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters in the Spanish Netherlands after Frans Floris career slumped in the second half of the sixteenth century as a result of the Iconoclastic fury of the Beeldenstorm.
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