Print Description
“Two lions coming out of a cave” This etching depicts two lions coming out of a cave. The print is based on a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, which depicts the biblical story of Daniel in the lions’ den. The lions in the etching are the mirror image of the lions in the painting. In front, a lion can be seen with its body turned to the right. Behind him, head to the left, stands a yawning lion with its mouth wide open.
Made by Abraham Bloteling after Peter Paul Rubens.
Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Amsterdam coat at arms.
Sheet size: 17.8 x 13.2 cm (7.01 x 5.2 inch). Image size: 17.4 x 12.1 cm. (6.85 x 4.76 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light paper spots and remains of tape from previous attachment on rear. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LIONS-BIBLICAL-DANIEL | PCO-C21-31
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Abraham Blooteling (or Bloteling) (1634-1690) was a Dutch designer and engraver.
Biography artist: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
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