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Theatrum Pictorium

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  1982,U.2070

• Title (series)

  • Theatrum Pictorium

• Description

  Martha trying to convert her sister. Interior of a room with Mary Magdalene seated at a toilet-table, Martha at left and pleading with her, a servant beyond; after Francesco Lupicini. c.1656-1660
  Etching

• Producer name

  • After: Francesco Lupicini
  • Intermediary draughtsman: David Teniers the Younger
  • Print made by: Jan van Troyen

• School/style

  • Flemish

• Date

  • 1656-1660 (c.)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 227 millimetres
  • Width: 169 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered in lower margin: "F. Lopitsino p." and "10 Alta 7 Lata" and "241" and "I. Troyen f.".
      Lettered below the impression: "Teniers Gal.".

• Curator's comments

  This is one from 246 plates of Teniers' Theatre of Paintings, for comment on the series see 1850,0713.20. After the painting (in reverse) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv.no.364.

• Bibliography

  • Hollstein 99

• Location

  Not on display (D+F XVIIc Unmounted Roy)

• Associated names

  • Representation of: St Mary Magdalene
  • Representation of: Martha

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1982,U.2070