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The Painter

ca. 1730
Not on view
This wonderful mezzotint after a painting by Horemans shows an artist at his easel within his busy studio. On the right apprentices grind pigments and sharpen tools while another boy sits and draws. Near the painter, an elegantly dressed couple, presumably his clients, chat while a maid fills the painter’s glass of wine. Paintings hang on the walls and a violin, a recorder, and music sheet lie on a table on the right, indicating the painter’s other artistic talents. The composition is typical of the work of the Flemish painter Jan Josef Horemans who produced numerous images of everyday life bustling within shallow, stage-like settings.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Painter
  • Artist: After Jan Josef Horemans the Elder (Flemish, Antwerp 1682–1759 Antwerp)
  • Publisher: Johann Andreas Pfeffel the Elder (German, Augsburg 1674–1748 Augsburg)
  • Date: ca. 1730
  • Medium: Mezzotint
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 26 3/8 × 19 11/16 in. (67 × 50 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2018
  • Object Number: 2018.162
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal), Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Italian, Etching; undivided plate, only state
Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)
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