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Bacchus
Public Domain

Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck

Bacchus

c. 1675-1680

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Bacchus

c. 1675-1680

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 496 x 348 mm. (19 1/2 x 13 11/16 in.) Plate: 425 x 291 mm. (16 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series Opus Elegantissimum
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1401

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Below image: "Quam male Diue tuos effundis Bacche racemos? / Abstine? tam charam nil facit illa manum. / Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv: et Sculp: et Per Nicolaum Visscher edit: cum Privil: Ord: General: Belgii Fæderati. nunc apud G. Valk." Lower left corner: "29" Beneath plate mark at left in graphite: "LB 54 / Nag 25"

Markings: WM: A [Latin?] cross within a rosary or loop chain

Artist

Gerard de Lairesse

Dutch, 1641 - 1711

Dutch, 1641 - 1711
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Publisher

Gerard Valck

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726
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