Antique Print-ANIMAL-HORSE-PEEING-URINE-MAN-LANDSCAPE-Laer-c.1630

This print shows a landscape with a man holding his peeing horse to a leash.

Made by Pieter de Laer after own design.

Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 10 x 8.5 cm (3.94 x 3.35 inch). Image size: 10 x 8.5 cm. (3.94 x 3.35 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Remains of papertape on reverse. Creases. Brownish. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ANIMAL-HORSE-PEEING-URINE-MAN-LANDSCAPE | RBOS-A8-19

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was at first published ca 1630.

Biography artist: Pieter de Laer or Pieter Boddingh van Laer or Pieter Jacobsz de Laer (or 10 other names he used) monogrammed P.D.L. on the plate. He was born 1599, but his date of death is uncertain, probably 1642. He was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher from Haarlem.