Object number1982.10
Old Woman Emptying Chamber Pot
Datec. 1670
Artist
Hendrick Bary
(Dutch, 1640-1707)
after
Frans van Mieris I
(Dutch, 1635-1681)
CultureDutch
MediumEngraving
DimensionsImage: 10 x 7 in. (25.4 x 17.8 cm)
Mount: 10 1/4 x 7 3/16 in. (26 x 18.3 cm)
Mount: 10 1/4 x 7 3/16 in. (26 x 18.3 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Betsy Mudge Wilson, class of 1956, Memorial Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod17th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, printed signature, lower right within plate: H. Bary
InscribedOn recto, printed lower right within plate: Sculp.; lower left: F. Mieris pinx;
printed lower center: 197 Hou! gore Besjen hou! hebt gij uw' Eer verloren; / Dat gij uw Vuylicheyt op Eerb're hoofden Stort? / Of tracht gij, door dien Drek, ons d'ogen [i]uyt te boren; / Op dat uw' rimp'lend Vel. niet meer gezien en word?
[Woa! foul Crone Stop! / Have you lost your Honour; / That you cast your Dirt on honourable heads? / Or are you trying through this shit, / To make us avert our eyes; / So that your wrinkly skin is not seen any more?]
On verso: [illegible]
On mount, lower left margin in ink: Pilkington Page 400-
BibliographyNogrady, Elizabeth and Diane Shewchuk. Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection, Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History & Art, 2024, p. 21, 83ProvenancePurchased from Jeffrey Wortman, Prints and Drawings, New YorkVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryMaster Printmakers: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, April 9, 1992 - July 19, 1992;Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 27 - September 2, 2018;
Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, September 14 - December 31, 2024
DescriptionDepiction of an old plump and wrinkled woman wearing a dress, ruff, and head covering leaning out of a window and emptying a chamber pot.
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