David Teniers the Younger - The Good Samaritan - fine art print

Original artwork description from The Metropolitan Museum of Art website (© Copyright - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

This small copy after a canvas by Francesco Bassano of about 1575 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) was made as the model for an engraved plate in Teniers's Theatrum Pictorum (Antwerp, 1658), his catalogue of 229 Italian paintings in the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1646 to 1656. By 1740 the Dukes of Marlborough owned 120 of Teniers's panels for the project, including this one.

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This piece of art was made by the male artist David Teniers the Younger. The artpiece had the dimensions: 6 3/4 x 9 in (17,1 x 22,9 cm) and was painted with the technique of oil on wood. Today, the artwork is included in the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (licensed - public domain). In addition to that, the artpiece has the creditline: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a side ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. David Teniers the Younger was a painter, whose artistic style can primarily be attributed to Baroque. The Baroque artist was born in 1610 in Antwerp and deceased at the age of 80 in 1690 in Brussels.

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