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Cornelis de Visscher

The Pancake Woman, ca. 1650

Description

Maker

  • Cornelis de Visscher, 1628/29-1658, Dutch

Title

The Pancake Woman

Year

ca. 1650

Medium

Engraving on light weight cream laid paper, trimmed to platemark

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 43.3 x 35.1 cm (17 1/16 x 13 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso:in pencil, LR:Smith N · 42 - S.e elatXly/ N10In Plate--Along bottom, left of center:Corn VisscherInv. et sculp

Identification

State

6th of 6

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1207

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Visscher worked in the dark or “black” manner, using thick lines that are somewhat haphazardly assembled and punctuated by extensive dotting, making his overall composition painterly in its final effect. An independent engraver who worked in Amsterdam for most of his life, his technique nonetheless reflects the influence of the school of engravers surrounding the painter Pieter Paul Rubens (whose works hang at right).

Images of working-class subjects were popular in the Netherlands. Prior to Visscher, both Jan Van de Velde II and Rembrandt van Rijn had made prints depicting a woman selling pancakes, a popular street food. While their compositions offer a vivid slice of street-corner life, Visscher presents an interior domestic scene, where the grandmotherly woman is surrounded by children and a very curious cat.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The Pancake Woman with the accession number of 13.1207. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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