About the Artwork
The Bull
1650
Paul Potter (Artist) Dutch, 1625 - 1654 Clement de Jonghe (Publisher) Dutch
Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 4 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (11.1 × 14.6 cm) Sheet: 4 7/8 × 6 1/4 inches (12.4 × 15.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S884
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, upper left of image: paulus potter. f. | 1650
Inscribed, in plate, center bottom edge: Clemente de Ionghe excud Inscribed, in pencil, verso: IS [circled] Inscribed, in plate, lower right edge: 1
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Provenance
Sept. 1887 , C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Paul Potter, The Bull, 1650, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S884.
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