Print Description
This print shows a view on a landscape with a ploughing farmer with two oxen, spinning women in the background in front of a farmhouse. Mirror image of the original print.
Made by Vivant Denon after Niccolo Boldrini after Titian.
Medium: Engraving / etching on wove paper.
Sheet size: 39 x 28.5 cm (15.35 x 11.22 inch). Image size: 39 x 17.2 cm. (15.35 x 6.77 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Brownish spots. Smudges. Old tear restoration in lower margin and plate. New tear restoration in left of plate. Rubbing right site of the plate. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
FARMER-PLOUGHING-OXEN-SPINNING WOMEN-FARMHOUSE-LANDSCAPE | RBOS-A11-20
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for France under Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798?1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte (‘Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt’), 1802, was foundational for modern Egyptology.
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