Antique Print-AVOID VICE-KNOW IT-CARDINAL SINS-ATHENA-van Veen-Daret-1646

Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 21 x 26.1 cm. The image size is ca. 15 x 18 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.3 x 10.3 inch. The image size is ca. 5.9 x 7.1 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Pour hayr le vice il le faut connoistre.’ – (‘To hate vice one must know it’). Athena stands in the center of a room with the cardinal vices around her. To avoid these vices, one must be aware of them, is the argument. From: ‘La Doctrine des Moeurs […]’ printed by Louys Sevestre for Pierre Daret, Paris, 1646. First edition. Author: Marin le Roy de Gomberville. Made by order of Mazarin for the instruction of the young Louis XIV. The plates are copies in reverse after Otto van Veen’s emblems in ‘Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata.’ Ref: Brunet II 1658.Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘P. Daret’ after ‘Otto Vaenius’. Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized name Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius, (c.1556-1629) was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

Condition: Good, given age. Thin paper in left top and left lower in print and margin, backed by comtemporary paper. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-AVOID VICE-KNOW IT-CARDINAL SINS-ATHENA-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-13