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A Couple Addressing a Gesticulating Young Man, plate 8 from "The Masquerades"

Workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II Netherlandish
After Jacques de Gheyn II Netherlandish
1595–96
Not on view
Composition of three figures of whom two are placed facing away from the viewer. A man and a woman are depicted in the foreground, turned with their back towards the viewer. The man looks to the woman at his right and holds her hand. The woman faces the third figure seems to be explaining something, while pointing towards the right.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Couple Addressing a Gesticulating Young Man, plate 8 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 × 16.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.95.1229(8)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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