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Peasants Fighting Over a Game of Cards

Lucas Vorsterman the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and others

Peasants Fighting Over a Game of Cards

2000

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Peasants Fighting Over a Game of Cards

2000

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 429 × 521 mm. (16 7/8 × 20 1/2 in.) Image: 408 × 513 mm. (16 1/16 × 20 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.334

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Pet. Bruegel inuent."; below image, lower margin, in plate, eleven lines in Latin in six columns, beginning "Tityrus et sterili [...]"; below image, lower right following text, in plate "EAReuter [E, A and R entertwined]"; below image, lower center, in plate "PRAESANTISSIMOQ. VIRO, DNO IOANNA BREVGELIO, PETRI BRVEGELII SVI TEMPORIS APELLIS FOLIO, PATERNAE ARTIS HAEREDI EX ASSE, HOC PATRIAE MANVS MONVMENTVM ARTIFICIOSSIMVM, L.M.Q.D.D. Lucas Vorsterman. excud. cum priuil."; below image, lower right, in brown ink "90" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "7354"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Peter Paul Rubens

1576–1639

Flemish, 1577-1640
Meet Peter Paul Rubens

Artist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1524–1568

Flemish, c. 1525 - 1569
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