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About the Artwork

Spring

1617

Jan van de Velde

1593-1641

Dutch

Unknown

Etching and engraving in ink on laid paper

Plate: 11 3/8 × 16 3/4 inches (28.9 × 42.5 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 × 17 inches (29.5 × 43.2 cm)

Prints

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Albert Kahn

40.15

This work is in the public domain.

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Signed, in plate, lower right of image, monogram.

Inscribed, in plate, lower left, center of image: Ian vanden velde fecit CI Visscher | excudit 1617 Cum privill. Inscribed, in plate, lower left and lower right of image: 1 Inscribed, two verses of Latin text in plate below image at lower left and right. Inscribed, between the two verses: VER

Marked, watermark, center right, coat of arms.

Provenance

(Weyhe Gallery, New York, New York, USA). Albert Kahn [1869-1942]

1940-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 13.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Jan van de Velde, Spring, 1617, etching and engraving in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Albert Kahn, 40.15.

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