Le Taureau (The Bull)
Paulus Potter, Dutch, 1625 - 1654
1650
Etching on laid paper
Impression: 4 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. (11.4 × 13.1 cm)
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 1/16 in. (10.8 × 12.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.948.60
Publisher
Clement de Jonghe (1634/5–1677), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper left: paulus potter F./1650; inscribed, in plate, lower center: Clement de Jonghe excud.; verso: unidentified collection mark: D.U. (Lugt 796)
Course History
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2020
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1948.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hollstein vol. 17, no. 1
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