An Oriental Grandee, A Peasant with a Cock attached to his Belt and a Veiled Woman Playing the Rumbling-Pot, plate 5 from "The Masquerades"
Composition of three masked figures of whom two male and one female. On the left side an oriental figure is placed holding a scepter in one hand and clutching his sword with the other. On the right, a male figurre has been portrayed from the back, showing a cock hanging from the belt around his waist. Between them a veiled woman is depicted who faces the viewer and is plaring the rumbling-pot.
Artwork Details
- Title: An Oriental Grandee, A Peasant with a Cock attached to his Belt and a Veiled Woman Playing the Rumbling-Pot, plate 5 from "The Masquerades"
- Series/Portfolio: The Masquerades
- Artist: Workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague)
- Artist: After Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague)
- Date: 1595–96
- Medium: Engraving; first state of three
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 6 9/16 in. (23.7 × 16.7 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
- Object Number: 49.95.1229(5)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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