Sleeping Huntress

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Pieter van Avont Flemish
Etcher Figure etched by Paulus Potter Dutch
1644–52
Not on view
Landscape with Diana sleeping at the foot of a tree, a quiver in lower right; after Peeter van Avont

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Sleeping Huntress
  • Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After Pieter van Avont (Flemish, 1599–1652)
  • Etcher: Figure etched by Paulus Potter (Dutch, Enkhuizen 1625–1654 Amsterdam)
  • Date: 1644–52
  • Medium: Etching with engraving added by Paulus Pontius; second state of two
  • Dimensions: Plate: 6 × 8 9/16 in. (15.3 × 21.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.2.173
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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