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Minerva Defending Painting Against Envy and Ignorance
Public Domain

Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Minerva Defending Painting Against Envy and Ignorance

1669

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Minerva Defending Painting Against Envy and Ignorance

1669

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 260 x 188 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.) Plate: 208 x 144 mm. (8 3/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1375

Signed: 1

Inscribed: In trompe-l'oeil on stone surface at lower right, cut off by the right edge: "G. Laire" Below image: "Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv: et Sculp: et per Nicolaum Visscher edit: cum Priv: Ord: Gen: Belgii Fæderati." Lower left corner: "60" Beneath plate mark at left in graphite: "LB 294"

Markings: WM: D [heart] TAMIZIER / AUVERGNE

Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher I

Dutch, 1618 - 1679
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Publisher

Gerard Valck

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726
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