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Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746) after Gerard Dou (1613-1675) - [Antique print, mezzotint] The woman with the mousetrap and a boy, by candlelight: Het muysefalletje, published ca. 1700, 1 p.

Title: [Antique print, mezzotint] The woman with the mousetrap and a boy, by candlelight: Het muysefalletje, published ca. 1700, 1 p.
Description: A woman holding on one hand a mouse trap and on the other a lit candle, a boy with cap on the left pointing at the mouse trap. The scene takes place on a niche. A pewter jug with open lid, fallen on the right foreground.Signed on the bottom: 'G. DOUW PINX / N. Verkolje Fec.'[NL] In een vensteropening laat een vrouw, bij kaarslicht, een muizenval aan een jongen zien. De jongen wijst op de val. Mezzotint on laid paper, with some margin; plate mark: 256 x 210 mm, total: 278 x 223 mm; only state; some stains on the verso, one slightly affecting the face of the woman, rare. J. Aono, Reproducing the Golden Age: Copies after Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century, in: Oud Holland 121 (2008), nr. 1, p. 20.

Keywords: Allegories|Animals|Children|fire|Genre|Night scene Allegories, Animals, Children, fire, Genre, Night scene,

Price: EUR 968.00 = appr. US$ 1052.07 Seller: Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur
- Book number: 61025