Thus the Master Pulls the Cow out of the Well by its Tail, 1652

Not on View

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.7 × 31.5 cm (8 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

sheet: 23 × 31.8 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 9, State only

Accession Number

1971.36.10

Artists / Makers

Remoldus Eynhoudts (artist) Flemish, 1613 - 1680

Jacob Jordaens (artist after) Flemish, 1593 - 1678

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Iac. Iordaens Inventor. 1652. [after which is written by a later hand, in brown ink: et fecit principale]; verso: later hand, in graphite, at center: Jordaens / Cacus s'[indecipherable] les vaches d'Hercule / 1ere etat [indecipherable]; later hand, in graphite, at right center: 385 [in a box] / Ch. Bl. 9; later hand, in graphite, at bottom left: 13723; later hand, in graphite, at bottom right: B25-768; later hand, in brown ink, at bottom right: 12930

Marks and Labels

none

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