Antique Print-PLEASURES OF OLD AGE-CARE-TIME-SCYTHE-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.6 x 29.4 cm. The image size is ca. 14.5 x 17.7 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 11.6 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 7 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘La vieillesse a ses plaisirs.’ – (‘Old age has its pleasures’). An old, bespectacled and bearded man, sits in the middle, with a woman caring for him close by. Time flies by with raised scythe, leading three women of different ages and a putto holding a laurel wreath toward the man. To the left three figures dance and walk away, with one of the figures eating fruit. 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 in the margin just below the image. A faint dampstain in the lower right margin corner. A faint small stain in the margin near the lower left edge of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-PLEASURES OF OLD AGE-CARE-TIME-SCYTHE-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-32