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Young Bacchus Riding a Leopard Led by a Satyr Blowing a Horn

Wenceslaus Hollar and Peeter van Avont

Young Bacchus Riding a Leopard Led by a Satyr Blowing a Horn

1646

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Young Bacchus Riding a Leopard Led by a Satyr Blowing a Horn

1646

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 156 × 228 mm. (6 1/8 × 9 in.) Plate: 138 × 208 mm. (5 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.) Mount: 180 × 250 mm. (7 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2306

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom right, in plate, "P. von Avont inv, WHollar fec. 1647,"; below image, bottom left margin, in pencil "2[indecipherable]7"; below image, bottom right margin, in pencil "24" (?)

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

1606–1676

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Peeter van Avont

1599–1651

Flemish, 1600 - 1652
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