Seated Bear Facing Left, 17th century

  • Marcus de Bye, Dutch, 1639 - 1690
  • Paul Potter, Dutch, 1625 - 1654

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 5 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (13.3 × 17.1 cm) Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 inches (14.3 × 17.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S205.3

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Watermark, center of image: [shield with rearing animals on either side] Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date, 1887, added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed in plate, outside image border: 5

September 1887, C. J. Meyer (possibly Carlsbad, California, USA). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Marcus de Bye; after Paul Potter, Seated Bear Facing Left, 17th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S205.3.