Title:
The Elderly Fool and His Cat
Creator/Contributor:
Alexander Voet II, Flemish, ca. 1635-after 1695; after Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593-1678
Date:
17th century
Identifier:
2000.43.1
Format:
Print
Engraving and etching
17 1/8 x 13 13/16
Notes:
Catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 49 (after Jordaens, only state); Hollstein 12 (Voet II); Nagler 25; Le Blanc 25; Wurzbach 28
Inscription: Recto, in plate, below four lines in French and four in Dutch, "I. Iordaens inuent." at l.l.; "Alex. Voet iunoir
Sculpsit et excud." at l.r.; Verso, "P. Mariette 1664" (Lugt 1790) and "Eugene Gru [?] 1876" in brown ink near c.; Goldsmith's
stamp (Lugt 1962) in green ink near l.l.
Provenance: David Tunick, New York; Pierre Mariette, Paris; Neville Goldsmith Eugene Gru [?]
Subject:
portraits; elderly; men; cats; borders (ornament areas)