Pieter Maes

Worked in 1583–1591
The Netherlands

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THE COOK AND HIS WIFE

1577

Bottom left: a monogram and a date, РМ 1577

Copperplate engraving

108×63 mm

Handbooks:

TIB. Х, 084; С. 5

Impression in the Museum collections

Watermark:
is unclear because the sheet is mounted on dense paper

Provenance:

M. Avinova’s collection;
in the Museum since 1928

Inv. Г-72347

Comments:

a mirror reflection of Albrecht Dürer's etching, without Dürer's monogram