Antique Print-COW-MULE-Potter-ca. 1830

Price: € 29,50

Subject: Antique print, untitled. This plate shows a cow and a mule.
Condition: Very good, given age. Print attached to carrier sheet. Pinholes in top corners, missing right lower. Dampstained in the lower edge of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Medium: Engraving on wove paper.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 14.5 x 11 cm. The image size is ca. 12.5 x 10 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 5.7 x 4.3 inch. The image size is ca. 4.9 x 3.9 inch.
Part Number: 64179
Location: C301-20
Description: Later copy, on 19th century (?) paper.

Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Paulus Potter'. Paulus Potter (1625-1654) was a Dutch painter from Enkhuizen who died in Amsterdam when he was not even 30 years old and was one of the better known Dutch painters. Potter was one of the first artists ever to choose animals as his main subject. In this he was sublime. He was in many eyes the most heralded Dutch animal artist. His art is all the more remarkable considering that he died at the age of twenty-nine and thus his oeuvre is small in number. Both a painter and printmaker he created only eighteen etchings.