[Three leopards and two boys] [graphic] / P.P. Rubens pinxit ; W. Hollar fecit.

[Three leopards and two boys] [graphic] / P.P. Rubens pinxit ; W. Hollar fecit.

[Antwerp] : [s.n.], [between 1644 and 1652]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 138 x 205 mm

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Under a tree three leopards are lying, with two small boys seated in the middle. The leopard on right stretches out his right paw to a bunch of grapes on the ground. The boy on left holds up a bunch in his left hand. --Pennington.

Title from Pennington.

After a detail from a painting known as The leopards, attributed to the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens and now in the Montreal Museum of Fine Art (1975.15).

Plate mark dimensions from New Hollstein.

According to New Hollstein, this print dates from Hollar's Antwerp period (1644-1652).

Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 508
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 892

Belgium -- Antwerp.

ART 266- 101 (size XS)

Trimmed within plate mark

266101