Snake and Butterfly

c. 1685-1697

Johann Teyler

Artist, Dutch, 1648 - after 1697

Workshop of Johann Teyler, after Otto Marseus van Schrieck

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching and engraving inked à la poupée on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.2 x 45.8 cm (6 3/4 x 18 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 17.3 x 45.8 cm (6 13/16 x 18 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.17.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 311


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Johannes Teyler and Dutch Colour Prints, Ad Stijnman, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2017: Part II, no. 311.

1999

  • C.G. Boerner Inc., Farbige Graphik, Düsseldorf, 1999: no. 56.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in ink: 57 (crossed out)

Markings

none

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q75426332


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