Four Dancing Children and Two Making Music

c. 1640/1650

Erasmus Quellinus II

Artist, Flemish, 1607 - 1678

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.8 × 30 cm (9 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 23.9 × 30 cm (9 7/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.40.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Franz Rechberger [1771-1843], Vienna (Lugt 2133), dated 1800. (Jan Johnson, Montreal); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge: no. 4

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, at lower center: E. Quellinius F. cum privilegio; in plate, in image, at lower right: E. Quellinius F. cum privlegio; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: FV [not deciphered] / ASHeyden 4

Markings

Franz Rechberger [1771-1843], Vienna (Lugt 2133), dated 1800


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