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The Robbery of Horses, A Moonlight Scene

The Robbery of Horses, A Moonlight Scene by Cornelis Visscher

Medium

Etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

36.5 × 29.5 cm (14 3/8 × 11 5/8 in.)

Classification

engraving

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

9393

About the Artist

Cornelis Visscher · 16291658

Cornelis Visscher (1629–1658) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, draughtsman, and printmaker born in Haarlem, the brother of fellow artists Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. Little is known of his early life, but he studied under the Haarlem painter and engraver Pieter Claesz Soutman, with whom he closely collaborated from 1649 to 1650, producing numerous portrait engravings for Soutman's print ...

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