Twee vechtende mannen en de Dood, anonymous, after Jan Lievens, 1617 - 1699

Title(s)

Twee vechtende mannen en de Dood

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2002-176

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 19
  Remark: Kopie.

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: anonymous
• after design by: Jan Lievens (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Paul Fürst (mentioned on object)

Place

Germany

Dating

1617 - 1699

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 242 mm × width 287 mm

What

• (personifications of) 'Vanitas', the vanity of human life; Fragilità humana, Fugacità delle grandezze & della gloria mondana, Meditatione della morte, Opera vana, Piacere vano, Vana gloria, Vanità (Ripa)
• Death as skeleton
• drunken brawl (usually peasants fighting in an inn)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 2002

Copyright

Public domain

• Leyster - Matteus, p. 17, cat.nr. 19