Zomer, Jean Couvay, after Grégoire Huret, 1632 - 1657

Title(s)

Zomer
L'Estè (title on object)
Personificaties van de vier seizoenen (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1975-6

Catalogue reference

• IFF 17e siècle 54

Inscriptions / marks

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

Artist

• print maker: Jean Couvay (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Grégoire Huret (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Pierre Mariette (I) (mentioned on object)
• unknown (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
publisher: Paris
France

Dating

1632 - 1657

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 306 mm × width 212 mm

What

• year divided into four seasons
• summer, 'Aestas'; 'Estate' (Ripa)
• agricultural implements: sickle
• cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet)

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 1975

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 3, p. 208, cat.nr. 54