Antique Print-BLINDNESS-ONE LEGGED MAN-FOOL-ORPHEUS-MIDAS-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.7 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 14.5 x 18 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 7.1 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Un aveuglement est suivy d’un autre.’ – (‘One blindness is followed by another’). A man in fool’s costume puts a foolscap on the head of a blind, one-legged man opposite him. In the background Orpheus and Midas can be seen, surrounded by satyrs. 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. Two tears in lower margin, with old restorations. Crease in left margin, tear in the top left margin, closed with acid free tape. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-BLINDNESS-ONE LEGGED MAN-FOOL-ORPHEUS-MIDAS-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-22