Antique Print-TIME-SCYTHE-CADUCEAUS-THREE GRACES-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.6 x 29.8 cm. The image size is ca. 14.4 x 18 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 11.7 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 7.1 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Tout se pert avec le temps.’ – (‘Everything is lost with time’). The figure of Time (personified) tramples one figure (with bow and arrow and wearing a lion’s pelt) and raises his scythe for a second figure on the ground (holding a caduceus). The Three Graces embrace each other in a doorway on the left. 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 faint stain in the top left margin and left edge of the image. A small stain in the lower right margin. Creasing in the left margin, just below image area. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-TIME-SCYTHE-CADUCEAUS-THREE GRACES-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-31