Author: Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), Paulus Pontius (1603-1658), after Peeter van Avont (1600-1652)
Title: Antique print, etching I Huntress Diana sleeping (Diana goding van de jacht) , published ca. 1644-1652, 1 p.
Description: Landscape with naked Diana resting under a tree. A quiver with arrows and a bow on the ground on the right.Hollar engraved the landscape and Pontius the goddess. The cooperation between these two artists is to be dated during Hollar's stay in Antwerp between 1644 and 1652.After a composition by Peeter van Avont.Signed at bottom: P. Pontius sculp. / W. Hollar fecit.[NL] Diana als jageres. De naakte godin Diana slaapt onder een boom. Haar pijlenkoker ligt naast haar. Etching and engraving on laid paper, with some margin; total: 167 x 228 mm; state II/2; some light brown stains on the margins, some rubbing due to handling, otherwise in good condition. Mounted on laid paper, in cardboard passepartout. Hollstein 39.

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