A young couple wait while a contract of marriage is drawn up and the servant waits to take the stop out of the barrel. Engraving by Jean-Charles Baquoy after Jan Steen.

  • Steen, Jan, 1626-1679
Date:
1700-1799
Reference:
28397i
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1700-1799

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 30.9 x 37.1 cm

Lettering

Contract de mariage. D'après le tableau original de Jan Steen, peint sur toile, qui se trouve dans la galerie de S.E. Mgr. le premier ministre le Comte de Bruhl à Dresde. Large de 3 pieds 9 pouces, haut de 2 pieds 10 pouces. Peint par Jean Steen. Gravé par Ch. Baquoy.

Edition

[State with lettering and coat of arms].

References note

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des estampes, tome premier, Paris 1931, p. 485, J.C. Bacquoy no. 283. ("283. [Contrat de mariage, d'après J. Steen.] Ch. Le Blanc, no. 122.")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 28397i

Reproduction note

After a large painting by Jan Steen in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (Inv. GG 313), where the subject is identified as the marriage of Tobias and Sara

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