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Pastoral Scenes in Etching

Etchings depicting pastoral themes, featuring mythological figures and landscapes, illustrating stories of love and nature from the 17th to 18th century.

Apollo Met lier on the parnassus, Michel DiGIGY, at Simon Vouet, 1640 print paper engraving / etching Apollo playing the lyre, Apollo Citharoedus. fabulous animals ~ hoofed animals: winged horse. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
Apollo Met lier on the parnassus, Michel DiGIGY, at Simon Vouet, 1640 print paper engraving / etching Apollo playing the lyre, Apollo Citharoedus. fabulous animals ~ hoofed animals: winged horse. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
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La Bergère Laborieuse 18th century After François Boucher French. La Bergère Laborieuse. After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris). 18th century. Etching and engraving. Prints
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Elijah sits under a tree by a river, where ravens come to bring him bread and meat. Next to him is a large book. After the Bible text in 1 Kings 17:6. At the bottom in the margin two two-line texts in Dutch., Elijah fed by the ravens Story of Elijah (series title) Royaalbijbel (series title), print maker: Pieter Nolpe, (mentioned on object), after: Pieter Symonsz. Potter, (mentioned on object), publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1623 - 1652 and/or 1623 - 1702, paper, etching, engraving, h 397 mm × w 500 mm
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Portret van Frederik de Vries, Raffaello Guidi, After Hendrick Goltzius, in or after 1773 print Portrait of Frederik de Vries with the dog of Hendrick Goltzius. He was a son of the painter Dirck de Vries, who was a student of Hendrick Goltzius. Frederik gets ready to sit on the dog's back and holds a pigeon in his hand. On the cartouche an assignment in Latin. The caption in Latin speaks about the simplicity of the child and the faith of the dog. Rome paper engraving dog
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Gardens of Prince Mattei, Rome. Dated: 1681. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur.
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Sense Taste, Nicolaes de Bruyn, After Maerten de Vos, 1581 - 1656 print Woman as a personification of sensory taste sitting in landscape with vases full of fruit and vegetables, she eats from an apple while a monkey and rabbit also eat. The fall of Adam and Eva is shown in the background. In margin under two lines Latin. paper engraving taste, tasting (one of the five senses). Eve offers the fruit to Adam
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Portrait of Guy Michel Lejay and his family. Landscape with the lawyer Guy Michel Lejay, also called "La Polyglotte", the Marquis and Marquise de la Chassisetière and their three young children. The coat of arms of the family hangs on a tree. Various animals (dog, bird, frog, rabbit) in the foreground. In the background a castle and two deer at a lake.
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Autumn 1766-1812 Etienne Claude Voysard. Autumn. After Jean Jacques Bachelier (French, Paris 1724-1806 Paris). 1766-1812. Engraving. Etienne Claude Voysard (French, Paris 1746-1812 Paris). Prints
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Ruth, having gleaned barley in a field owned by Boaz, is given hospitality by him. Engraving attributed to B. Picart.
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Saint Mary Magdalen. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1772, after Annibale Carracci.
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. A naked woman, on the edge of a forest lake, bends over her clothes.
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La jeunesse. Dated: 1735. Medium: engraving and etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Nicolas de Larmessin IV after Nicolas Lancret.
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Allegory of Transience, anonymous, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1594 - 1667 print A putto sits on the floor and leans against a skull, while in his left hand he holds a pipe with which he blown bubbles. In his right hand, he holds a shell behind him, incense bob that rises from smoke. Under the show a rule of text in German. Germany paper engraving (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla' ~ scene symbolizing 'Vanitas'
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Study for Title-Page. Artist: Attributed to Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: sheet: 7 5/16 x 4 15/16 in. (18.5 x 12.5 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The transfer of Prince Maurits in Charons Boat; Regtspleging Van Oldenbarnevelt. Cartoon onto the transfer of Prince Maurits in Charons (= Prince Willem II) boat. Here people. Also some draggins in the water. A few people are hung on a tree branch. Some people look from the quay. According to a handwritten text. Associated with series of watercolors in book.
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Arcadian landscape with Athens crowning an old man and Venus and Adonis. Draughtsman: Louis Fabritius Dubourg. Dating: 1747. Measurements: h 253 mm × w 342 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Print made by Bernard Lens, 1659-1725, British, Tobit and the Angel, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper.
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Apollo with a Bow and Dragon. Dated: 1771. Dimensions: plate: 21.9 x 16.4 cm (8 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 27.9 x 38.4 cm (11 x 15 1/8 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Salomon Gessner.
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Thisbe flight to the lioness at the source, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 print Thisbe flees a lioness at a water source. Title in Latin in STUDMARGE. print maker: Italypublisher: Antwerp paper etching Thisbe, fleeing from a lioness, drops her veil (the scene may be situated near a fountain)
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Birth of Venus, Bernard Picart, After C. G. Clingstet, 1700 print Venus drives to the coast on a shell, pulled through swans, with an apple in the hand. Amor flies with them. Water nymphs crown hair with a flower wreath. In the background Neptunus on his car. Paris paper etching / engraving birth of Venus; Venus Anadyomene: after Uranus' castration Venus rises from the sea wringing the water from her hair; usually she is awaited by the Hours. (story of) Neptune (Poseidon). (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros)
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Bas-relief of three putti with a dog and fruit basket, executed in gray-brown ink and brush over black chalk.
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Two men compare the amount of fruits and leaves of a tree, Jan Luyken, 1710 print Amsterdam paper etching trees. conversation, dialogue; conversation piece. earth, world as celestial body
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HERERININ METS AMORLY AMOR, GILLES Antoine Dreams, neart Jean Baptists (Le Vieux), 1760 - 1802 print Paris paper. watercolor (paint) dream. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.. (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros)
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Venus and Adonis in a hug engaged ..
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Jeugd, Nicolas de Larmessin (III), After Nicolas Lancret, 1735 print Group of young people in a park. Two men stand with a bow at a high pole. publisher: ParisFrance paper etching / engraving youth, adolescent. shooting-the-bird (on a high pole)
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Illustration from Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe 1787 edition
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Winter 1735-86 Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune French. Winter 394272
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Auditus. Dated: 1561. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris I.
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Mary sits on the ground outside a stable and breastfeeds the Christ child. The print is part of a 53-part series of prints after paintings by Titian and Veronese. Mary nursing the Christ Child Opera Selectiora , print maker: Valentin Lefebvre, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Valentin Lefebvre, (mentioned on object), after: Titiaan, (mentioned on object), Venice, 1682, paper, etching, h 172 mm × w 237 mm
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Emblemata Secularia 1611 Theodor de Bry Netherlandish. Emblemata Secularia 343653
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A gouache painting by Jacques-Philippe Caresme from 1780-1790 showing Bacchantes engaged in lively games with satyrs.
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Death of Saint Cecilia, Anonymous, c. 1600
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Design for a room painting with a face in a garden with a lying dog, fountain and statue. Draughtsman: Dionys van Nijmegen. Dating: 1715 - 1798. Measurements: h 451 mm × w 325 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Panel 1775-1825 France. Block-printed, color on paper .
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Two men standing in front of a tree looking at a spider's web, Emblem: spider Two men looking at a spider's web, print maker: Jan Luyken, publisher: Christoph Weigel, print maker: Amsterdam, publisher: Neurenberg, 1695 - 1705, paper, etching, h 110 mm × w 124 mm