Wallerant Vaillant - engraver, Cornelis Bega - inventor - Couple Embracing in a Tavern
Vaillant’s mezzotints with genre themes also reproduce picturesque countryside or tavern scenes after Adriaen Brouwer and Cornelis Bega. Both painters depicted unattractive or even repulsive types, such as drunkards, lechers or simpletons.
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measurements: height 339 mm
width 273 mm
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material: paper
technique: mezzotint, second state
inventory number: R 169293
gallery collection: Collection of Prints and Drawings