Antique Print-VIRTUE-IMMORTAL-HEAVEN-ANGEL-FASCES-BURIAL-van Veen-Daret-1646

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

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 20.4 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 14.4 x 17.5 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 8 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 6.9 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘La vertu nous rend immortels.’ – (‘Virtue makes us immortal’). An angel carries two figures (one carrying a fasces) into the clouds while in the background a funeral is in progress and mourners hold torches to the sepulchre. 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 dampstain in the lower left margin edge. Twe tears in the lower margin, closed with comtemporary paper. Manuscript ink annotations on the verso, below text. Some creasing (from binding) in the left margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-VIRTUE-IMMORTAL-HEAVEN-ANGEL-FASCES-BURIAL-VAN VEEN-DARET

(PCO) A331-26