Print Description
Zo de oude zongen, zo pijpen de jongen.’ (As the old sang, so the young squealed.)
Made by Schelte Adamsz.Bolswert after Jacob Jordaens.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 45.5 x 33 cm (17.91 x 12.99 inch). Image size: 44.5 x 29.4 cm. (17.52 x 11.57 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Various small tears all inferfections, not noticable on front. Sheet doubled. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
SINGING-YOUNG-OLD-FLUTES-BAGPIPES | EXPO-DUTCH/FLEMISH
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Schelte Adamsz.Bolswert (1586-1659) was a leading Dutch engraver, noted for his works after Rubens and Van Dyck.
Biography artist: Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (1593-1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. After the death of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he became the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time. Unlike those illustrious contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study the Antique and Italian painting and, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he resided in Antwerp his entire life. He also remained largely indifferent to Rubens and van Dyck’s intellectual and courtly aspirations. This attitude was expressed in his art through a lack of idealistic treatment which contrasted with that of these contemporaries.
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