Drie minnende paren in kasteeltuin, Johann Theodor de Bry, after anonymous, 1596

Title(s)

Drie minnende paren in kasteeltuin
SI RECTÉ MEMINI, VITAE EST AMOR ESCA BEATA (title on object)
Emblemata Saecularia, 1596 (series title)

Object type

• print
• cognizance

Serial number

5/50

Object number

RP-P-BI-5191

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 240-287

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘SI RECTE MEMINI, VITAE EST AMOR ESCA BEATA’
• number: ‘5’
• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Drie minnende paren in een kasteeltuin tijdens de avondschemering. Waarschuwing tegen de onverstandige, alles verterende liefde van de jeugd, die op spijt uitloopt. De bijbehorende tekst luidt: De Liefde haer Lust in J(e)ucht s'herte heet / stort / Maer t'is dyckwyls nu Lief / dat namals leet wort. Embleem nr. 5 in Emblemata Saecularia, 1596, nr. 24 in de uitgebreide uitgave van 1611.

Artist

• print maker: Johann Theodor de Bry
• after print by: anonymous
• publisher: Johann Theodor de Bry

Place

print maker: Frankfurt am Main
after print by: Netherlands
publisher: Frankfurt am Main

Dating

1596

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 100 mm × width 100 mm

What

• clothes, costume (+ men's clothes)
• clothes, costume (+ women's clothes)
• Garden of Delights (sometimes called 'Hortus Deliciarum')
• garden of Love, court of Love, 'fête galante'
• neck-gear ~ clothing (with NAME) (+ men's clothes)
• head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes)
• sleeves

When

• 1585 - 1599

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Brun - Coques, F.W.H. Hollstein, p. 38, cat.nr. 240-287