About the Artwork
Taste
between 1679 and 1720
Abraham de Blois (Artist) Dutch, active 1679-1720 Andries Dirksz Both (Artist) Dutch, 1609-1645
Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Image: 5 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (14.6 × 12.1 cm) Sheet (no visible plate mark): 6 1/2 × 5 inches (16.5 × 12.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S173
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate below image, lower left: Gustus. Inscribed, lower center: le Goût Inscribed, lower right: de Smaak. Inscribed, lower right corner: 5
Watermark, center of sheet: [crown-like device]
Provenance
December 1894, J. Huneker sale. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hollstein. Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, vol. III. Amsterdam, 1950, p. 157, no. 4.
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Abraham de Blois; after Andries Dirksz Both, Taste, between 1679 and 1720, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S173.
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