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Antique Print of the Assyrian Queen Semiramis hunting lions by De Lairesse (c.1700)

  • Condition: Good, given age. Light foxing, mainly visible in the margins. Original middle fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
  • Date: c.1700
  • Overall size: 59.7 x 44.7 cm.
  • Image size: 48.3 x 36.6 cm.
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.. Antique Print of the Assyrian Queen Semiramis hunting lions by De Lairesse (c.1700)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Virtus Viri' - This plate shows the Assyrian Queen Semiramis hunting lions. A woody landscape with the Assyrian queen on horseback at right, accompanied by other horsemen, a group of hunters showing two dead lions at left, a biga loaded with weapons and a group of camels in left background , engraved by Gerardum ( Gerard) de Lairesse and published by Gerard Valk in c. 1700.

Source unknown, to be determined.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Gerard de Lairesse' after an anonymous artist. Gerard de Lairesse (Liege; 1640-1711) was a Belgian Golden Age engraver, painter and art theorist. Painter and etcher. Born at Liege, 1660 to Berlin, 1665 to Amsterdam; moved to The Hague around 1684.