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Title
The Elderly Fool and His Cat
Creator
Alexander Voet II, Flemish, ca. 1635-after 1695; after Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593-1678
Date Created and/or Issued
17th century
Publication Information
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection
Old Master Prints
Rights Information
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Description
Catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 49 (after Jordaens, only state); Hollstein 12 (Voet II); Nagler 25; Le Blanc 25; Wurzbach 28
Inscription: Recto, in plate, below four lines in French and four in Dutch, "I. Iordaens inuent." at l.l.; "Alex. Voet iunoir Sculpsit et excud." at l.r.; Verso, "P. Mariette 1664" (Lugt 1790) and "Eugene Gru [?] 1876" in brown ink near c.; Goldsmith's stamp (Lugt 1962) in green ink near l.l.
Provenance: David Tunick, New York; Pierre Mariette, Paris; Neville Goldsmith Eugene Gru [?]
Type
image
Format
Print Engraving and etching 17 1/8 x 13 13/16
Form/Genre
Print
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1000035q
2000.43.1
Subject
Portraits; elderly; men; cats; borders (ornament areas)

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