Résurrection

Frans Masereel

1956

  • Titles Résurrection (Proper)@Mon Pays (My Country) (Portfolio)
  • Artist Frans Masereel, Belgian, 1889 - 1972
  • Medium woodcut
  • Dimensions sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 7/16 in. (23.8 × 18.9 cm) image: 6 1/16 × 4 1/2 in. (15.4 × 11.4 cm) mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Belgian Ministry of Dutch Culture, 1978.47.5
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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A scene of a crowded street between buildings. Two signs hang overhead. In the center of the street, a woman is seen carrying pots on her head. Beside her stands a man in a top hat.
A family is portrayed in profile. On the right, a woman sits in a chair with a book resting in her lap. She holds a sheet of paper in her right hand. A man leans on the back of her chair holding out a writing utensil. On the left, another man stands holding onto a young child that stands on a stool.
Chaotic scene of men on horseback and carriages with spectators on the right.
Lucas and Cornelius de Wael were painters. They are seen here in portrait. 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.