About the Artwork
Seated Bear Seen from the Front
17th century
Marcus de Bye (Artist) Dutch, 1639 - 1690 Paul Potter (Artist) Dutch, 1625 - 1654
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 5 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (13.7 × 17.1 cm) Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 inches (14.3 × 17.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S205.4
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed in plate, outside image border, lower right: 6 In pencil, verso: [numeric notations]
Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt 2357a) date, 1887, added in ink to the stamp
Provenance
September 1887, C. J. Meyer (possibly Carlsbad, California, USA). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Marcus de Bye; after Paul Potter, Seated Bear Seen from the Front, 17th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S205.4.
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