Print from steel engraving titled „Honsekraemmaren“.

Artist Pieter Aertsen.

Engraved by W. French.

From „Balled-Galleri af beromte maleres vaerker, indeholdende staalstukne Gjengivelser af italienske, spanske, frannske, flanderske, hollandske og tydske Mesteres mest fremragende malerier. Mede n Raekke Portraiter i Traesnit og en efter de nyeste og bedste Skrifter udarbejdet biographist Text.“ Andet Bind. Kjobenhavn. P. G. Philipsens forlag. 1877.

Pieter Aertsen (1508–3 June 1575), called Lange Pier ("Tall Pete") because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism, who invented the monumental genre scene combining still life and genre painting, and very often also including a biblical scene in the background. He was born and died in Amsterdam, in his lifetime a relatively minor city, and painted there but mainly in Antwerp, then the centre of artistic life in the Netherlands. His genre scenes were influential on later Flemish Baroque painting, and also in Italy, and his peasant scenes preceded by a few years the much better-known paintings produced in Antwerp by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Approx. image size 17 x 13, 9/28, 2 x 20 cm.

Condition: good.