Antique Print-IMPRUDENT-FLEE VICE FOR ANOTHER-WEALTH-COIN-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 21 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 14.3 x 18 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.3 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.6 x 7.1 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘En fuyant un vice, l’imprudent tombe en l’autre.’ – (‘In fleeing one vice, the imprudent fall into another’). A male figure, dressed as a fool with bells on his cap, flees from one woman (standing beside a bag of gold coins) into the arms of another, whose apron overflows with coins. 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, backed by comtemporary paper, not affecting image. Some small stain in lower part of print. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-IMPRUDENT-FLEE VICE FOR ANOTHER-WEALTH-COIN-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-13