Has Venationis, Aucupii, et Piscationis (Scenes of Hunting and Fishing), title from a series of ten plates after Vinckboons by various artists
After David Vinckboons Netherlandish
Pieter Serwouters Netherlandish
Publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher Dutch
Not on view
David Vinckboons, the very popular draftsman and painter, made only three prints himself, but his designs were the basis for more prints than any other Netherlandish artist in the early seventeen century. In this series, various scenes of hunting and fishing are set in stylized landscapes, peopled by peasants and noblemen.
In the present work, the title is written on the hide of a stag, which hangs at the center of the composition held up by two dogs. At the left is a fisherman with his nets and the right a hunter standing on a boar. The space is filled with more dogs, weapons and the spoils of the hunt.
Three of the ten etchings, including the present work, are by the Claes Jansz. Visscher, and seven by Pieter Serwouters. Although the series was published in 1612, as indicated on this titlepage, plate 7 is dated 1609. Vinckboons’s preparatory drawings in reverse are in the Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
