Three Men Struggling in an Interior
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.6 × 37.7 cm (11 5/16 × 14 7/8 in.); Sheet: 28.8 × 37.8 cm (11 3/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
193080
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Jonas Suyderhoef was a reproductive etcher and engraver who made 138 prints after more than 50 artists during his career. He is known for his achievement of chiaroscuro effects, evident here in a lively genre scene after Gerard ter Borch, one of the foremost Dutch artists specializing in scenes of everyday life and portraiture. Cards and money are strewn about as a Dutch soldier, armed with a knife, attacks another, presumably over a lost game of cards. Knocked off his stool and falling backwar...
About the Artist
Jonas Suyderhoef · 1613–1686
Comment on works: Engraver; Draftsman; Painter; Reproductions