c. 1655-1656
Toilet of Venus
David Teniers IIFlemish (active Antwerp and Brussels), 1610 - 1690
The painting upon which this oil sketch is based has not survived. Attributed to Palma il Giovane by Teniers along the bottom of this copy (since painted over), the original composition is actually a work by Andrea Schiavone. It appears in several scenes that Teniers made of the archduke's art gallery. The printmaker who translated this sketch into an etching, Theodor van Kessel (1620-after 1660), settled in Antwerp after 1652 and produced twenty-seven plates in the Theatrum Pictorium.
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