Coryn Boel

Flemish, 1620 - 1668

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Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger, The Monkeys' Barber Shop, mid 17th century, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth B. Benedict, 1994.60.4

The Monkeys' Barber Shop

Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger · mid 17th century · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.60.4

Printed in black and gray tones against cream-white paper, three cats, three kittens, two monkeys, and an owl gather on and around a dining table in this horizontal etching and engraving. A round-topped table is covered by a white cloth at the center of the composition. The pedestal-style legs have feet carved to look like sleepy fish. Three cats and three smaller kittens sit on the table and presumably sing, their mouths open, around a music book. An owl with brushy, feathery brows perches on the top of the book, which is propped up on the table. A seventh cat peers through a rectangular opening in the wall to our left, looking down on the scene. Two monkeys hunch together in the lower right corner. One wears a floppy cap with a feather, the other a hooded robe, and that second one plays a horn instrument. Two lutes, a bagpipe, and another horn instrument are clustered in the lower right corner of the sheet around a book titled “TENOR.” Text inscribed in the plate near the lower left corner reads, “D Teniers In et excud. cum privilegio” and one to the right reads, “Cory Boel. f.”
Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger, The Cat's Concert, engraving and etching on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.15

The Cat's Concert

Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger · · engraving and etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.15