The Monkeys' Barber Shop

mid 17th century

Coryn Boel

Artist, Flemish, 1620 - 1668

David Teniers the Younger

Publisher, Flemish, 1610 - 1690

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.7 x 32 cm (9 3/4 x 12 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.60.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 42, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 34.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

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

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 34.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: D. Teniers In. et. excud. cum priuilegio; lower right in plate: Coryn Boel f.; by later hand, center right verso in graphite: B; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 3239 / K718(17)

Wikidata ID

Q75119154

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