Farmers

Central Europe

  • Titles Farmers (Title)
  • Medium etching
  • Dimensions sheet: 13 7/8 × 19 15/16 in. (35.2 × 50.6 cm) plate: 6 7/8 × 9 3/4 in. (17.5 × 24.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. G. J. Roscoe, 1979.63
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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A bird with a long beak stands in profile view in front of a plant with short green leaves and a blue, round fruit.
Pieter de Jode, an engraver, stands in front of a table with engraving tools sitting upon it. He holds his left arm across his body. In his left hand is a rolled piece of cloth or paper. He looks slightly to the proper left. This image is from the Gillis Hendricx edition of the Iconography (Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum), 1632-44.
Adam van Noort was a history painter from Antwerp and a teacher of Rubens. He is seen here in portrait from the waist up, looking out to the proper right. He wears a wide frilled collar with a long cloak that he gathers at his stomach with his left hand. He stands against a brick colomn. This is from the Gillis Hendricx edition of the Iconography (Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum), 1632-44.
A lion tears into the breast of a fallen man with his front paws. He looks to the right.