About the Artwork
Title Page: Pedestal and a Pair of Dogs
1642
Jan Fyt (Artist) Flemish, 1611-1661 Theodor van, II Merlen (Publisher) Flemish, 1609-1672
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (16.5 × 21.9 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S504.1
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Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right of image: Ioannes Fyt | pinxit et fecit.
Inscribed, in plate, center of image: All. Illmo sigre mio, é Prone Collmo il sigre | DON CARLO GVASCO | Marchese di Solerio Comendre di | Mirabello del l'ordine Sant | Iago Del Consiglio di | Guerra di Sua Mia | Cattolica et Suo Capn | Generale della Artiglieria | del l'esseroto di | Alzatia. Inscribed, in plate, below dedication: A Paris chez van Merlen, | rue S. Iacques a la ville d'Anvers, | Avec Priuil. du Roy | 1667
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
November 1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany).Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jan Fyt, Title Page: Pedestal and a Pair of Dogs, 1642, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S504.1.
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