Still Life with a Hanging Partridge

Pieter Schenck I

Artist, Dutch, 1660 - 1718/1719

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.6 x 18 cm (9 11/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 24.9 x 18.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.78.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 476

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Emanuel von Baeyer, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

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

across lower center in plate: Prodiga rerum Luries, nunquam parvo contenta paratu.; lower left in plate: P. Schenck fec. et exc. Amsteloed.; lower right in plate: Lucan. 4 lib. / cum Privil. Ord. Holland; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Baeyer; by later hand, lower left verso in ink: No 26

Wikidata ID

Q75431065

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