Nous Sommes Sept

Details

Follower of Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne
Nous Sommes Sept
inscribed 'wij Sijn Seeven - nous Sommes,,Sept.' (on the banderole, lower centre)
oil on panel
38 x 60.7 cm.

Provenance

(Possibly) Talon; sale, Fievez Brussels, 10 March 1927, lot 107, as A. van de Venne.

Literature

(Possibly) A. Plokker, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (1589-1662) de grisailles met spreukbanden, 1984, p. 243, no. 104, as A. van de Venne (unseen).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A print by Cornelis Dusart, signed and dated 1695, bears the same inscription 'NOS SUMUS SEPTEM" (Holl. 41). In Dusart's mezzotint a buffoon is shown seated on a donkey, with a young boy seated on his neck. An owl is perched on the donkey and a boor holding a swine is standing nearby. As in the present picture, only six figures are shown, although the inscription remarks that there are seven - the seventh buffoon being, of course, the viewer.

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