Soo D'oude Songen Soo Pepen De Jongen (As the old sing, so the young twitter), c. 1640

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 32.2 × 44.1 cm (12 11/16 × 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 293, State iii/v

Accession Number

1975.2.1

Artists / Makers

Schelte Adams Bolswert (artist) Flemish, 1586 - 1659

Jacob Jordaens (artist after) Flemish, 1593 - 1678

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at upper center: Soo D'oude Songen Soo Pepen De Jongen.; in plate, below image, at left: I. Iordaens inuent. et pinxit.; in plate, below image, at center: A Bloteling Excudit Cum Privilegio.; in plate, below image, at right: S. à Bolswert Sculpsit.

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

1996: Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996, as The Family Concert (As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young) by Schelte Adams Bolswert.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge