The Happy Patriot

in or after 1695

Cornelis Dusart

Associated Names
Cornelis Dusart

Artist, Dutch, 1660 - 1704

Jacob Gole

Publisher, Dutch, 1660 - 1724

The image shows a man in a dynamic pose. He has one foot on the ground and the other lifted, twisting slightly to one side. His head is tilted back slightly with his eyes closed. He has long, wavy hair and is wearing a tunic, pants, and holding a hat in his left hand and a vessel in his right hand. The background includes cliffs on the left, a campsite with tents and a horse on the right, and swirling clouds in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession Number

    1974.119.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 32, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oswald Stein (not in Lugt); Dr. Julius Hofmann [1840-1913], Vienna (Lugt 1264)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Everyday Life in Black and White. Dutch Mezzotints from the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, 2008, no catalogue.

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

Wikidata ID

Q65567193

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