Engravings of Daily Life

Engravings illustrating scenes from history and daily life, capturing emotions and actions detailed through ink and paper techniques.

Leyden, Lucas van, Amsterdam, Muller, Jan Harmensz., Passion of Christ, Entombment, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lift the body of Christ into the grave. In the background are Mary, John and Mary Magdalene., print, prent, prints, height 121 mm, width 79 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1571 - 1628, print maker, printmaker, 1613 - 1622, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1494-06 - 1533-08, after print by, 1800 - 1900

Leyden, Lucas van, Amsterdam, Muller, Jan Harmensz., Passion of Christ, Entombment, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lift the body of Christ into the grave. In the background are Mary, John and Mary Magdalene., print, prent, prints, height 121 mm, width 79 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1571 - 1628, print maker, printmaker, 1613 - 1622, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1494-06 - 1533-08, after print by, 1800 - 1900

Cardinal Richelieu Plant the siege of La Rochelle, 1624, Reinier Vinkeles (I), after Christian Bernhard Rode, 1798 print Cardinal Richelieu plans the siege of La Rochelle, 1627-1628. The cardinal views the map of the city and the crosons. paper etching / engraving siege La Rochelle

Pancake baker, Jan van de Velde (II), 1603 - 1652.

La vieille aux Chats (The Old Woman with Cats), from LesGueux. Artist: Unknown After: Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635

Copper engraving by Ludwig Krug showing John on Patmos, sheet cut to the plate edge, produced in the first third of the 16th century, depicting John, landscape, and symbolic elements.

The Bag-Pipe Player. 1547. Lorichs, Melchior, 1527-approximately 1590. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Poet at work, after 1694 - c. 1715 print A poet is writing the Zede and Harp hyms. There are two open books on the table in front of him, he holds a writing spring in his hand. A harp leans against the bookcase. Amsterdam paper etching bard, lyric poet (+ artist at work)

Albrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome in His Cell, 1511, woodcut on paper.

Fire; Ignis; The four elements. A blacksmith at work in his blacksmith. He strikes his hammer on an anvil. The blacksmith is a symbol of fire element. The print has a Dutch caption that the craftsman praises his occupational. The print is part of a four-part series over the four elements.

Two Women with Children. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (French, Paris 1727-1791 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 9 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (24.5 x 17.4 cm). Date: 1766. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Peasant Couple Selling Eggs. Sebald Beham; German, 1500-1550. Date: 1520. Dimensions: 53 x 39 mm (image/plate); 54 x 41 mm (sheet). Etching in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Hans Sebald Beham.

Old gesture philosopher caresses the bosom of a young woman, Caspar Merian, after Hans Holbein (II), after Ambrosius Holbein, 1676 print paper etching / letterpress printing Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'nonsense', 'Staltitia' (Ripa). Indecency, Impudence; 'Schools' (Ripa)

Violin, smoking and drinking men, Jacob Hoolaart, After Adriaen van Ostade, 1723 - 1789 print In an inn, a man raises his glass while another violin plays. A third listen and has a pipe in hand. Dordrecht paper one person playing string instrument (bowed). pipe ~ tobacco

The night; The four times of the day. Sleeping people in a departure. In the foreground a woman is sleeping in a wicker armchair. In addition to her a sleeping baby in a cradle. At the back of the room a four-poster bed with a sleeping man and a woman who adds him. Nox in the clouds can be seen through an open window.

Hugo de Groot hides in the book box, 1621, 1800 - 1899 print Hugo de Groot gets into the book box, March 22, 1621. His wife Maria van Reigersberg stands next to him with a book in his hands. Netherlands paper law and jurisprudence (+ escape from prison) Slot Loevestein

Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The beggars, the old cat, 1st state". Etching. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 27019-13 Seat, cat, woman, misery, age, senior, old age

Giovanni David, Exegi Monumentum (Art Inscribing Minerva's Shield), 1775 Exegi Monumentum (Art Inscribing Minerva's Shield)

Dorsch, Margaretha.

Brouwer, Adriaen, Amsterdam, Visscher, Cornelis (II), Haarlem, Man at a doctor's, verso - stamped, In a room a doctor is treating or operating on the foot of a man sitting in a chair, his foot resting on a block of wood. The patient is pulling a pained face. A second man is observing the treatment from behind his table. In the background a man is in a storage room., print, engraving, prints, height 290 mm, width 364 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1629 - 1658-01-16, print maker, printmaker, 1638 - 1658, paper, etching, engraving (printing process), Southern Netherlands, 1606 - 1638-02-01

Copper engraving by Lucas Hugensz. van Leyden depicting Markus, created in 1518, showing figure, posture, and compositional detail.

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), La Cassaria, Scene from III act, engraving

Belphegor. Dated: 1794. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Emmanuel Patas and Antoine-Jean Duclos after Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

Copy after print by Adriaen van Ostade with representation mirrored wrong, Family at table before meal The prayer before the meal, Adriaen van Ostade, (mentioned on object), print maker: anonymous, 1653 - 1745, paper, etching, h 178 mm × w 138 mm

Francisco de Goya, Al Conde Palatino (To the Count Palatine), in or before 1799 Al Conde Palatino (To the Count Palatine)

Self -portrait by Michiel van Musscher in Allegorical Framing, Michiel van Musscher, 1685 print The painter, print maker and draftsman Michiel van Musscher with a palette, painting stick and brushes in hand. Behind him is a easel. His portrait is surrounded by allegorical symbols - father Time, an hourglass and soap bubbles. The painting attributes and the symbols refer to the perishable time and the immortality of the artist through his fame. The verse on the tablet mentions that father time lights the canvas to reveal the greatness of the painter, but also refers to the hourglass that indicates that his life is already partially over. Northern Netherlands paper engraving portrait, self-portrait of painter. Father Time, man with wings and scythe. (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla' ~ scene symbolizing 'Vanitas'

The Dentist, 1523. Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, 1494-1533). Engraving;

Vayer, C. le, France, Liotard, Jean-Etienne, Fumeurs Flammans, The Flemish Smokers, recto under - etchings, An inn with a group of four men around a table, three sitting and smoking a pipe. In the doorway stands a woman with a jug in her hand., print, engraving, prints, engravings, Engraved in part by JE Liotard after the tableau qui est dans son Cabonet. Comme il ný a point de touches dan la nature, je les ay evitées dans cette engraving, sans rien perdre de l'Expression et du caractere des Tetes., height 380 mm, width 271 mm, 1702-12-22 - 1789-06-12, printmaker, 1779 - 1783, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, mezzotint, etching, roulette

The requested doll (Bartsch 16) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The Requested Doll (Bartsch 16). Forte, in 1679

A Proverb: Wealth and Poverty. Artist: Karel van Mander I (Netherlandish, Meulebeke 1548-1606 Amsterdam). Dimensions: sheet: 10 1/8 x 6 13/16 in. (25.7 x 17.3 cm). Date: mid-16th-early 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A jester-like figure is about to put a pisspot on a sleeping woman's head. He is sticking out his tongue. On the table, on which the woman has laid her head to rest, lies a toppled wine glass. On the door of the window is an owl. The wine is a mocker, print maker: Jacob Hoolaart, Frans van Mieris, Dordrecht, 1723 - 1789, paper, h 228 mm × w 190 mm

Fire; Ignis; The four elements. A half-naked boy is in a forge and strikes with a hammer on hot iron. Print from a series of four prints that depict the four elements.

Italy, Ferri, Ciro, Frezza, Giovanni Girolamo, Painter and Blacksmith, verso - stamped, A saint painter, a soldier and a blacksmith around a block where the painter's brushes are heated. Above angels. In the background on the left two canvases with representations of Mary and Child., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 300 mm, width 162 mm, Italian, 1659 - 1748, print maker, printmaker, 1686 - 1748, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1634 - 1689-09-13

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist. Annibale Carracci; Italian, 1560-1609. Date: 1589-1590. Dimensions: 169 x 226 mm. Engraving with etching in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Copper engraving showing a lame individual being assisted in bedding, depicting interaction between figures, created by Cornelis Massys in 1538.

Suzanna and the elders. Two elders hide behind a wall and peek to suzanna bathing at a fountain.

Steen, Jan Havicksz., Kesteren, Christiaan Lodewijk van, Merry company, verso - stamped, At the table, on which a child is standing, adults are smoking and drinking exuberantly. An old man and woman are sitting by the window, singing from a sheet of paper. They are accompanied by a man with a flute. A couple is sitting by the mantelpiece on the right. In the doorway stands a man with a cake and in the window behind the man sits a cat., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 266 mm, width 229 mm, 1832-08-09 - 1897-06-25, print maker, prentmaker, 1861 - 1861, paper, papier, chine collé, steel engraving, staalgravure, Noord-Nederlands, 1626 - 1679-02

Peasant Paying his Bill 1610-85 After Adriaen van Ostade Dutch. Peasant Paying his Bill 396258

Keisnijder Der W, print maker: Johann Elias Haid, (mentioned on object), after: Frans van Mieris, (mentioned on object), Johann Elias Haid, (mentioned on object), Augsburg, 1776, paper, etching, h 321 mm × w 225 mm

Artist: Jan Georg Van Vliet, Dutch, ca. 1610-after 1635, Sailmakers, Etching, 21.1 × 16.5 cm (8 5/16 × 6 1/2in.), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Madonna on a Grassy Bank Made 1503 Germany. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Albrecht Dürer

Blind with supervisor and beggar, Pieter de Mare, 1768 - 1796 print Two performances; Above a blind with a companion and under a beggar in rags. Leiden paper etching beggar. blind, blindness

Saying grace. prints, etchings, drypoints, works on paper

The mother and both children (Bartsch 14) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The Mother and Both Children (Bartsch 14). Floor, 1671-1679

Cadmus sows dragon teeth, accompanied by Minerva, Benoit Louis Prevost, after Charles Nicolas Cochin (II), 1764 print Two dragons behind Minerva. A man with a drapery points Minerva at the work of Cadmus. paper etching on Minerva's advice, Cadmus sows the dragon's teeth; a host of armed men springs up. sowing

Two men study a Globe, Jan Luyken, 1694 print Amsterdam paper etching globe

Woman and Death. Draughtsman: Jacob de Gheyn (II). Dating: 1600. Measurements: h 156 mm × w 130 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A young couple take advantage of their chaperone having fallen asleep but the woman warns her lover to be quiet while they embrace. Etching.

Pierre Brebiette, The Little Girls' Tavern, c 1620 The Little Girls' Tavern

The Goldsmith 1655 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch. The Goldsmith 392049

Bakker blows on a horn. Bakker blows on a horn while standing in the doorway. Adriaen van Ostade was the first artist who chose this topic for a painting and an etching. Thanks to the distribution of the print, the theme found a lot of imitation.

Two men and a violin player, Jacob Hoolaart, After Adriaen van Ostade, 1723 - 1789 print In a departure, a man plays a violin for two other men, one of whom has a jug in hand. The other holds a described sheet for the violin player. There is a print on the wall. Dordrecht paper one person playing string instrument (bowed). violin, fiddle. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

The Holy Family at Table Made 1623-1633 France. Etching on paper . Jacques Callot

Judit with the head of Holofernes, Alexander Voet (II), After Peter Paul Rubens, 1661 - 1695 print Judit and her maid put in the head of Holofernes in a bag. Imagination of the Bijvel Story Judit 8-16. Southern Netherlands paper engraving Judith and her maidservant put Holofernes' head in a sack

Portrait of Titian and his Maitresse, Anthony Van Dyck, After Titian, 1627 - 1635 print Copy to self -portrait of Titian with a young woman. At the bottom right a skull. Titian's painting was lost, because of the Ets of Van Dyck we know what the portrait looked like. paper etching / brush portrait, self-portrait of painter. mistress. skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'

Peasant Couple at Rest. Dated: c. 1621. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Sibille; Paradigmata Graphics variorum artificum. A sibille sitting with a book on her lap. Numbered at the top right: 22.

Presentation of a story from the Aesopus fables. A man, a girl and a boy with a large object standing in front of a building. There is a church tower in the background.

The Dentist. Dated: 1523. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.6 x 7.5 cm (4 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.). Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: LUCAS VAN LEYDEN.

Farmer or man with pipe and drinking cup in a window opening with a shutter that opens outwards. Print from a series of eight prints based on depictions by A. van Ostade, Peasant smoking in a window opening Caprice, print maker: Abraham Bloteling, (possibly), Adriaen van Ostade, (mentioned on object), publisher: Abraham Bloteling, Amsterdam, 1655 - 1690, paper, etching, h 129 mm × w 103 mm

Print made by David Allan, 1744-1796, British, born in Scotland, Bauldy and Mause, 1808. Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Fool with a Girl Looking Through Her Fingers. Artist: Werner van den Valckert (Netherlandish, 1585-1627). Dimensions: sheet: 9 11/16 x 7 1/16 in. (24.6 x 18 cm)plate: 8 7/16 x 6 3/16 in. (21.5 x 15.7 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Fumeur's Buvel (Bartsch 24a) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). Smoker and Drinker (Bartsch 24a). Floor, 1671-1679

Roem; De roem.The personification of the fame points to a monument with a poem. On the monument are the clubs and lion skin of Hercules. On the left hero attributes such as a laurel wreath, sword, helmet and breast kuras. The praise and a book with laurel wreath are in the foreground.

Blessing (Bartsch 34) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). Blessing (Bartsch 34). Forte, in 1653. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

PRENT TRANGEAR. Look through a window. Within a young print dealer who shows his prints to a customer.

Picart, Bernard, Paris, Peasant Woman Pretending to Resist the Advances of a Lover, verso lower left - stamped, A peasant woman (Claudine) pretending to resist a lover who is trying to kiss her. She laughs as she fends off his hands and lips. Her basket hangs from the branch of a tree., print, prints, height 80 mm, width 105 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1705 - 1705, first quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman

Men and women at counter, A. Dickhof, 1860 print Men and women at the counter. Man spits a too hot dish back in a bowl. Under Dutch verse in two lines. paper engraving / etching shop, store

Amsterdam, Pfeiffer, François Joseph (I), Portrait of Isaak van Goudoever, verso bottom center - stamped, Portrait of the Mennonite Isaak van Goudoever. The portrait is surrounded by the paraphernalia of the Amsterdam militia, of which he was a colonel., print, prent, prints, height 305 mm, width 229 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1741 - 1807, print maker, printmaker, 1793 - 1796, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, aquatint

The Seven Vices: Lust by Hans Burgkmair, circa 1510

Woman puts a burning lantern on a table; The lanters.

VREDSAMICH PAER, Jacques de Gheyn (II), 1605 - 1615 drawing An old farmer and his wife sitting deep in prayer for the fruits of their hard work. Above them the pigeon of the Holy Spirit floats. On the right a gate, a farm. Design for a print. paper. ink pen (Personifications of) 'Vanitas', The Vanity of Human Life; Humana fragility, fleeting of sizes & of world glory, meditation of death, vain work, vain pleasure, vain glory, vanita (Ripa). Old Age, 'Senectus'; 'Oldness' (Ripa). Holy Ghost Reprified As a where (in Flames). Hands Folded with Fingers Knit

Lawyer defends widow and pointed, Honoré Daumier, 1846 The lawyer defends the widow and the orphan in the sense of: he does not accuse them. Paris paper caricatures (human types). plea, defence. the accused. widow

Field tenderness (Bartsch 11) Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). Field tenderness (Bartsch 11). Floor and dry tip, circa 1652. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

Louis XIII (King of France), Saint-Igny, Jean de, Bosse, Abraham, Costumes of the French nobility in the church, La Noblesse Francoise à l'Eglise, Kneeling French nobleman, in a church interior, dressed according to the fashion of ca. 1630, verso - stamped, French nobleman, fashionably dressed, kneeling before an altar praying. Hat with plume in hand; on the head a round cap., costume print, prints, height 153 mm, width 97 mm, French, 1602 - 1676-02-14, print maker, printmaker, 1628 - 1629, paper, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1600 - 1647-11-09, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, 1601-09-27 - 1643-05-14, granter of privilege

The feeling, Jacob Gole, after Cornelis Dusart, 1670 - 1724 print In a departure, a man touches a young woman. There is an owl on the ladder behind them. The print is part of a series of five prints with the five senses. print maker: Amsterdamafter print by: Haarlempublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving feeling (one of the five senses). owls. (Feeling of) Attraction

Marskramer demonstrates his merchandise. Design for a painting.

Albrecht Altdorfer, Samson and Delilah, c 1520 1525 Samson and Delilah

Young man bends for noblewoman. .

Lodewijk XIV exchange office, 1706, 1706 print Milan exchange office in which King Louis XIV (Harpagon) weigh money for Harlequin who stands for him, masked and with a key in hand. With two verses in French in the caption. Part of a series of 19 cartoons on the French and allies from the year 1706. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching political caricatures and satires. money-changer

Allegory of adultery, Cornelis Massijs, 1549 print A woman caught her husband for adultery. The man puts an egg in the woman's lap next to him, who immediately grabs his basket with eggs. At the top of the words of the woman in Dutch, in which she says that her husband leaves his eggs in another nest while she is left without it. Antwerp paper engraving adultery. eggs, egg-dishes. farmers

Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704-1767, Men Playing Backgammon, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper.

Etching by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn from 1639 depicting Jan Avercamp, also called 'the Gold Winger', showing figure, posture, and composition.

Baccio Baldini (1436-1487). "The prophets, Jeremiah". Tenth issue of a suite of 24 pieces (Bartsch 10). Chisel. 1450-1485. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 112279-3 XVEME XV XV 15th 15th 15 CENTURY, engraving

A barber playing the tragic role of Alexander the Great in the acting style of David Garrick. Mezzotint after R. Dighton.

The poelier star, Louis Bernard Coclers, 1756 - before 1780

David punished by Natan.

Three -Koning Festival, Anonymous, After Marten van Cleve (I), 1555 - 1631 print Medallion with a performance of the Three -Kings Festival. A man and a woman at an improvised table in an interior with a burning fire. The man wears a crown and drinks from a glass. The woman opposite him lifts her arm in a warning gesture and holds a jug with her left hand. There is a farm in the distance. Around an edge in German. paper engraving Twelfth Night, usually falling on the eve of January 6. glass of beer (+ taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.). image of phallus, 'phallos'

The Virginal player. Interior with a young woman playing on a virginaal. The lid of the instrument is painted with a representation of a couple in a landscape, on the lid is a monkey. Behind the Virginaal there are a boy and a girl. On the right a look to a man who is in the doorway. A bird cage hangs on the ceiling. Bottom left in the margin a coat of arms on a sprig with leaves.

Title Vignette for Stilling's 'Adolescent Years'. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (Germany, Danzig, 1726-1801). Germany, 1778. Prints; etchings. Etching

Woman for a house with a dog in a bucket, Philippus Velijn, after Joannes Antonius Augustinus Pluckx, After Maes, 1824 print A woman in front of a house behind a balustrade pulls on a cord. In the foreground a dog that puts its head in a bucket and a jug. Bottom right: bl. 79. Netherlands paper etching / engraving dog. container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase. wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket. balustrade. adolescent, young woman, maiden

Zeilmakers, Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, 1635 print Two figures sew a sail. In the foreground a wooden tub. Leiden paper etching needle ~ sewing. textile fabric, cloth. sail. shipbuilding industry (+ materials processed ~ crafts, industries, agriculture). wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket

Poor painter with his family; Magnus Pictor Inops. A poor painter and his family in the studio. The painter stands with his palette and brushes behind the easel. Masks and sheets of paper hang on the wall. On the ground a fallen jug, a pipe and a stack of cards.

Copper engraving and etching by Comte Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus depicting a Savoyard figure, showing regional clothing and environment, 1742.

Louis XVII Louis Charles de France

Inn scene with three figures by a fireplace, Jan de Visscher, after Adriaen van Ostade, 1653 - 1706 print In an inn, a lusty old man touches the cleavage of the woman sitting next to him. She looks at him with a smile. Behind them is a man with a hat watching. There are a rod and a print with an amorous show on the shot, behind the couple, and above the fireplace. paper etching / engraving

Illustration of a fable by La Fontaine A widow and her young daughter visit the hermit Luce who lives in a cave The bodies of the monk and the girl are shown calligraphed, Mother and daughter at the hermit Luce Le frere luce , print maker: Nic. Bart, (mentioned on object), publisher: Nic. Bart, (mentioned on object), Nic. Bart, (mentioned on object), Bern, c. 1760 - in or before 1776, paper, etching, engraving, h 377 mm × w 274 mm

Albrecht Altdorfer, The Pensive Carpenter, c 1520 1530 The Pensive Carpenter

Be quick, they are waking up. Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spain, Fuendetodos, 1746-1828). Spain, 1799. Prints; etchings. Etching and burnished aquatint

Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), Stava ella nel sepolcro; e quivi attrita / Da penitenza, orando giorno e notte, 1773. Engraving.

An old woman sitting and reading a book. Etching after Rembrandt.

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