Antique Print-GOOD MAN-SAFE-LAMB-DEMON-SNAKE-WEAPON-ARMOUR-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. 14.2 x 17.8 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.6 x 7 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘L’homme de bien est par tout en seurete.’ – (‘The good man is safe’). A man walks through a landscape with a lamb at his feet. A dog jumps away while a demon, snake and tiger (try to) attack the man. Discarded weapons and armour in the foreground. 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. A small stain just below the image. Some faint stains in the margin edges. Creasing in the left margin, and one (printer’s) crease across the center of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-GOOD MAN-SAFE-LAMB-DEMON-SNAKE-WEAPON-ARMOUR-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-25