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

c. 1640

Schelte Adams Bolswert

Artist, Flemish, 1586 - 1659

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1975.2.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 293, State iii/v

Artwork history & notes

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

Inscriptions

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.

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65577206

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