Antique Print-LIFE-DEATH-SAW-BOULDER-CONSTRUCTION-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.5 x 32.6 cm. The image size is ca. 14.4 x 17.8 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 7 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Le vieillard ne doit penser qu’a mourir.’ – (‘The old man must think only of dying’). An old man oversees construction work at night. Numerous figures are busy constructing a building, while the two foreground figures are sawing parts off a boulder. 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. Small stains in margin, not affecting image. Small tear in lower margin, backed by acid free tape. A manuscript ink annotation on the verso. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-LIFE-DEATH-SAW-BOULDER-CONSTRUCTION-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-34