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Reclining Goatherd and an Angel on Guard, from the series Otia delectant (The Praise of Sloth), ca. 1625 - 1650

  • etching, burin engraving, paper
  • 105 x 156 mm
  • Inv. 2014-KO-9

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This work is part of a series of sixteen copies in mirror image after the print series engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert after Abraham Bloemaert's design drawings (Roethlisberger 1993, I, pp.231-236, nos.297-312, II, fig.434-449). The series was published by Marcus Sadeler in Munich.

Artist

Anonymous Master
engravers (printmakers)AAT

Cornelis II Bloemaert RKD
Utrecht 1603 - Rome 1692
after

Abraham Bloemaert RKD
Gorinchem 1566 - Utrecht 1651
after

Marcus Sadeler RKD
Munich 1614 - circa 1650 - 1660
publisherAAT

Title Reclining Goatherd and an Angel on Guard, from the series Otia delectant (The Praise of Sloth)
Date ca. 1625 - 1650
Period 17th century
Location Munich TGN TGN
Medium and support etching AAT
burin engraving AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings printed inscription outside the depiction, below: Quisuis opus coeptum deduxit ad ultima felix, /-/ Otia securo ducere blanda licet.
Collection print room
Object type burin engraving AAT
etching AAT
Inventory number 2014-KO-9
Acquisition credit unknown
2014
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-KO-9
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11551/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT
25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 11G angels Iconclass
25H112 rocks Iconclass
25H1124 boulder, stone Iconclass
31A236 lying figure Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass
35 pastorals, Arcadian scenes Iconclass
47I214 goat Iconclass
47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass
48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
School / Style Baroque AAT
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