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Cornelis Visscher

A Mother an Swathed Child Riding a Donkey, plate 4 from Four Landscapes

c. 1649-58
Engraving on paper
25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

A professional engraver and draftsman, Visscher produced almost 200 engravings-including portraits and genre scenes of his own design-in his mere twenty-nine years of life.

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