Antique Print-DESPONDENCY-CRIME-DRAWN SWORD-CHASE-PANTHER-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.8 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 14.6 x 18 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.2 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 7.1 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Les Desbauche passe d’ un crime a l’ autre.’ – (‘The despondent move from one crime to another’). The image shows a man with drawn sword chasing another man. To the left a figure is helped up into a window by a woman in the window. A panther lies in the lower left corner. 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 ‘Pierre 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. Tears and paper loss in the lower right, backed with comtemporary paper (old restoration). General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-DESPONDENCY-CRIME-DRAWN SWORD-CHASE-PANTHER-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-05