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The Industrious Housewife

Johann Friedrich Bause and Gerrit Dou

The Industrious Housewife

1765

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The Industrious Housewife

1765

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 288 x 215 mm. (11 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.) Plate: 276 x 202 mm. (10 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.10795
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: Recto: below image, at right, in plate "I. F. Bause sculps. 1766"; below image, at left, in plate "Gerard Douw pinx."; below image, center, in plate "Die fleissige hausfrau / Dem Herrn Johann George Wille, konigl. Kupferstecher in Paris, /und Mitgliede der Churfurstl. Sachsischen Academien der Kunste zugeeignet von" and below at left "das Original von gleicher Grose des Kupferstichs, ist in / dem Cabinette des Herrn Gottfried Wincklers su Leipzig" and at right "Seinen Verehrer und ergebenen Diener / Ioh. Fried. Bause." Verso: center in graphite ""Die fleissige Hausfrau" / The industrius Housewife / Keil No. 35"; lower left in graphite diamond with "10122"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Johann Friedrich Bause

1737–1813

German, 1738-1814
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Artist

Gerrit Dou

1612–1674

Dutch, 1613-1675
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