Fiddler Playing in an Inn

 

Cornelis Dusart

 

1685  

etching 

11 x 9 13/16" platemark 

signed in the plate as part of the image (right, midway up from bottom: a handbill hangs from the mantle, artist's name in script across the bottom) 

not stated 

In Latin, engraved beneath image: "Rusticus ex animo, non pullus Hypocrita gaudet."-- loosely translated, "The rustic enjoys sincerely, not darkened by hypocrisy" 

Hollstein Dutch 15-3 (3); Bartsch 15; Catalogue du raisonne Des Estampes du Cabinet De M. Le Comte Rigal, 1817, page 122, cat. 15 

antique-white wove 

iii/iii 

artist 

22157 

$500.00