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When Your Purse Is Empty, You Eat Bones Not Bacon
Hendrick Goltzius, Karel van Manderc. 1592
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: When Your Purse Is Empty, You Eat Bones Not Bacon
- Creator: Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Karel van Mander I
- Date Created: c. 1592
- Physical Dimensions: plate: 24 x 17.2 cm (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 39.7 x 27.4 cm (15 5/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Château de la Roche-Guyon, France (part of an album)1; (Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased by NGA, 2003. 1 The album was bound in vellum, with "Abraham" on the cover and "Ligeoys" on the back cover. The Château de la Roche-Guyon stamp was on some of the pages, which included a variety of northern mannerist prints by Goltzius, Matham, Saenredam, and others. It was apparently dismantled by Prouté for sale of some of the prints to the NGA.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: engraving on laid paper
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